Best Barbeques Poems

You sleep, I dream,
imagining tomorrow
and all the tomorrows,
of our life.

Will we have children,
change jobs,
buy a house in the suburbs, 
have outdoor barbeques?

Perhaps we'll stay in...

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I was a skillful, amiable nursery worker, cultivating blooms in a greenhouse,
Like feverish and fragrant blooms, often grown in redbird's green treehouse.

Hours were spent sowing...

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It's not about barbeques,
Hamburgers and franks
It's a day set aside,
For offering our thanks,
For those who died,
Or were injured or maimed
To fight against evil,
Whatever it's named

Pity...

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My Heart Bleeds Red, and I Think Yours Beats Blue.


Living together as Neighbors with a White Picket Fence between, Since Our Kids were in Kindergarten,...

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Pastoral country
Where folks wave to passers by--
Farmers plowing

Exit 386
Wal-Mart, fast foods, and hotels-- 
Tourists stop

Modern businesses
Of every type one might need--
The short road to town

Refurbished...

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~August~
(Acrostic)


A-ugust is the 8th month of the year
U-ntil this day it has been continually hot
G-reat time for barbeques, the pool and the beach
U-nder the sun...

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I always know when it’s last call
That’s when he stumbles home
He’s armed and he’s dangerous
With nowhere to go
But even in his drunken sweat
He knows his...

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The smell of fresh cut grass on warm summer day, the sounds of children already at play. 
 The smell of barbeques in the air,...

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OH HONEY, LOOK AT THE PRETTY PINK HOUSE ON THE ****ING CORNER

Is it all about two promises and two hearts set upon the same goal,
or...

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I like to watch skeins of geese flying in the autumn sky,
And I like the smell of frying bacon and luscious cherry pie!

I like to...

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A holiday to commemorate the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Red, white, and blue everywhere you look; during this exciting summer holiday.
Families gather together for...

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I picture Kashmir through lightened KL. I see Kashmir through deserted eyes.
I am writing an elegy. While my Kashmir burns.
My blood has contents of a...

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I picture Kashmir through lightened KL. News of another massacre darkens my eyes
Winds are thirsty there. They continue to taste the young blood.
I groom myself...

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Barbeques sizzle as spirits soar into the dazzling day.
Fun in the sun abounds as children ageless come out to play!


written 6/10/2013
for Andrea's contest...

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A ten pence curve on a nine cent? Oh dear. It is a shame when the circles form. Either a circumference is allowed to exist...

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