After Dinner Poems - Poems about After Dinner

I’d invite you and your wife to dinner but my wife’s cooking is, well, no winner. I guarantee that after the first bite my prediction will kill your appetite and in short time you’ll be speeding from your chair to the bathroom heaving. But if like me you had to sit and eat until your plate was clean of every morsel piled on...

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DINNER’S A CHORE Dinner, my turn, nothing in the fridge Off to market, be gone a smidge Car won’t start, battery’s dead Jump it, full steam ahead Old gossips in the aisle, won’t move aside ‘Scuse me’ I croon, but they get snide Right back I get crass Suggest they kiss my ass ...

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Altho' fearless it was flightless I do declare and when it found itself earthbound was the dodo despondent in despair or even think it would become extinct if it knew it was in deep doo-doo somewhat akin to the the missing link unafraid of man who thought them dumb as they come on the quiet an easy prey for sailors a whole new different dinner diet but there was nothing...

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Smiles from me to you, making you happy not blue. Friendship we can praise, as we enjoy sunny days. My puppy is tan and small, she likes to sleep in mommy's shawl. She loves to play with her ball, while I play with my doll. We like to play outside, where she will run and hide. I...

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sitting on the dinner table where instead of food, he was served cold silence turned into words that hurt sitting on the dinner table he was served disappointment from others who questioned his existence sitting on the dinner table his father made a loud thump on the table spewed out his hate he always keep close...

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The sun will shine, The moon will rise. The nights will always glimmer. The birds will fly, The bugs will glide, The people will hide for winter. Everyday subsidies, Everyday I survived, I still don’t feel like a winner. All the plates will be shined, All the guests get invites, But I’ll still eat alone for...

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Roast beef with all the trimmings Roasted potatoes Carrots, broccoli and peas Lashings of gravy Cauliflower cheese Glass of wine. Bliss!...

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pour me a glass no place like home time slows down till life’s on pause you and i take a deep breath finally put up our feet honey-do list falls to the side nothing matters but the now for at least this little while we’ve earned our kudos we are victorious masters of our universe AP: Honorable Mention 2025 Posted on April 9, 2025...

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Oh, just be my guest, I pray Come to my humble home, I say I am eager to serve you, please Everything from pottage to cheese. A full-course dinner, no ifs or buts The entire gamut – soup to nuts! Cooking from nose-to-tail dishes Granting all your gourmet wishes. Dress for the occasion, head to toe Come hungry, oh, you’ll love it so, From crabs,...

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I set the table; I did not. The pourer did. The poor did not. The seats are cold; merlot is warm. The pourer asks; there are replies, sips, guzzles, sighs, manners. I am satisfied as each one’s drunk. The pourer leaps from spot to spot, wincing, squinting, craving approval. I smile; I nod; with each intonation, accent, sound of a lady and a gentleman. The...

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Microplastics microplastics in our food that steak dinner was excellent my compliments to the chemist ...

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A snack before dinner Just doesn’t seem right, For it could diminish A good appetite. At least that’s the message My mother would spout, Which I took to heart when No more than a sprout. Those adages somehow Don’t work anymore Yet still, in my head They are hard to ignore. When I’m feeling hungry And mealtime’s not yet I’ll pop a few olives So I don’t regret Ignoring advice That’s been...

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Every night, while I watch, she stacks the dirty dinner plates: carefully, habitually, with the grace of a woman who has learned to love herself. Intentionally, methodically, cleaning dishes at the sink, she is at her most beautiful. This is her nightly rhythm. The dishwasher is always off because she needs to feel the running water on arthritic hands. Our kitchen window faces...

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It's a perfect day for bananafish. But I know! It's not your favorite dish. So, I can make you a plate of oven-baked orangeprimate, and an appleoyster salad if you wish. ...

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Dinner date time Both eat warmly Get rid of cold....

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