Another AllPoetry contest poem. Here were the conditions:

The poem must be sixteen lines long
Each line must have at least three word-bank words per line.
The words and only used once.
Rhyme or Free Style
Each line must have at least five words per line. No more than ten words per line.
Poem should make some kind of sense.

HERE ARE THE WORD-BANK WORDS:

parchment, pathway, climb, stone, stairs, grandma, grandpas, perfume, portrait, charcoal, shelter, backyards, bisque, sweet, chrome, kaleidoscope, red, robins, honeydew, egg, hatches, artichoke, clusters, clementine, patches, month, crevice, cerebellum, bloom, branch, brains, eggshell, radish, eyes, gazebo, garden, fly, air, stare, bouquets, blossoms, butterflies, cornucopia, flamingo, colors, dot, edge, brooks, bank, burgundy, bluebonnets, flowers, water, caress, giant, cypress, wood, mantis, blackbirds, mulberry, woodpeckers, sit, cherry, bar, cadmium, condo, cobblestone, fireplace, asparagus, clover, colored, valley, goldenrod, pumpkin, mango, two, teenagers, pregnant, mate, post, snapdragon, squirrels, chocolate, owls, hyacinth, tree, trunk, inchworm, ivy, blackberry, hedges, skunk, teal, streams, jewel, glass, supper, taps, shrubs, roses, peddles, rubber, walls, burns, child.

The moment I saw "flamingo" in the list, I had an image of the blue flamingo in Hannes Bok's fantasy Beyond The Golden Stair. And then the flamingos used in the croquet scene in Alice In Wonderland. So the poem references both the stories a fair bit. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was the real name of Lewis Carroll.

The first draft came out reasonably well, with line length varying between 6-10 words. So I picked some more words and images to add in and made them an even 10 lines. So in the process, I used 61 of the word-bank words (out 0f 104) in my 160 word poem. And managed some sort of order - it rhymes A-B-B-A with four 4 line verses. And as I typically do, it's packed with alliteration (plus the word-bank list gave me the opportunity to pair "stairs" with "stare"on line eleven.)