Best Crumbs Poems
Today so many young women
Don't know how to cook meals
They can drive through Wendy's window
Ordering a good deal
Today so many young women
Can't sew a stitch to mend
They can catch all the sales events
On credit cards depend
Today so many young women
Haven't had a good guide
They only learned from poor examples
Schools' lessons brush aside
What can be done to change their lives
Homemaker to become
Can the schools be responsible?
No! The elders hold the crumbs
Sponsor: Regina Riddle
Contest: Didactic Poem Contest
Date: November 27, 2014 Thursday
Categories:
crumbs, introspection,
Form:
Didactic
These are my bread crumbs,
scattered on the brumous trail
should I ever turn around
to view the path I've traveled
and see only a myriad of trees.
These are my bread crumbs.
I drop them knowing full well they may be
eaten by ravenous rodents and raccoons
who perceive the value of bread crumbs
differently than I do.
These are my bread crumbs -
carefully marking the whens
and wheres of my life,
though I know your path will be elsewhere
and you will mark it as you see fit.
These poems are my bread crumbs.
written 9 June 2016
Categories:
crumbs, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
I will NOT be satisfied with the crumbs
That fall from your banquet table of love
I’m here to have a gluttonous feast
Don’t….Don’t insult me with tiny morsels
You throw my way
To entice?
To tease?
To...appease???
I’m to sit at the head of the table
My rightful place
And eat and drink to my fill
To satiation’s upper limit
My heart and soul, YES, my BODY nourished
S A T S F I E D
With the eclectic fare of delicacies
You serve
For is that not
The kind of feast
You are used to having from me?
I slave away for days on end
To prepare and offer to you, my King
The most scrumptious repast
And you leave MY banquet table
With the decadent savor
Of my sweetness in your mouth
No, this will not do
Until you tempt my appetite
With the fairest of delights
Don’t you dare think
That these mere crumbs will do
Eileen Manassian Ghali
Categories:
crumbs, analogy, food, love,
Form:
Free verse
Her wedding vows were simple, heartfelt and concise…
“If love is the bread of life,” she said,
“I promise all my love with every slice.
A smile crossed his face and tears welled in his eyes.
He could not hide his happiness…
his contentment…
his surprise.
For he knew in their life together…
in their future…
whatever comes…
He would have been just as happy…
living off the crumbs.
Categories:
crumbs, love,
Form:
Rhyme
CRUMBS
Just crumbs, Lord, from Your table—that’s all I should receive,
For I am so unworthy, but yet I still believe.
For no one’s unimportant, You love all just the same,
And nothing is impossible when one calls on Your name.
I can’t impress you, Jesus, with any work I do,
Or what I might be giving—that means nothing to You.
You just want me to trust You, to come just as I am,
Admitting I’m a sinner not fit for heaven’s land.
And so, just like that Gentile who came to You that day
And told You she’s unworthy to ask of You that way;
You said meat goes to children, and dogs the crumbs are fed;
Lord, all I want is crumbs then—then Jesus gave me bread
The crumbs turned in to manna at His table I was placed,
He cast out all my failures and saved me by His grace!
I learned so great a lesson if to Him I would come:
Don’t ask for meat or riches, but only ask for crumbs.
--Thoughts from a sermon preached by Dr. Tracy Fowler, March, 2016
Categories:
crumbs, food,
Form:
Rhyme
What's left of the crumbs, leave it to me.
His cries tore my ailing eardrums, my skin as blue as the calm of country nights
Then I sank under the mud of the battlefield, My heart sank like the stars of the raging galaxy, My wet hair and the mirror watching my majestic body, Save me under the scorching sun, Then it forms a roof of emeralds, And the bright lights of the stars blind my brown eyes, Then the moon caresses my soul, Loneliness gnaws at my chest, Where we? Do you even understand my words when I write to you? Or do you see it as beautiful to complicate the meanings?
My perfection blinded your accumulated heart with the fading colors of autumn
You were my dream, and I was your excuse, and your lips were wine, and I was addicted. So can I have another cup for this night?
My hair dances in the morning breeze, then I mention your name sprinkled with lilies of the valley, or iris, or a mixture of roses for touching you, in my dark fantasies under the veil of violet twilight, then you captivate me with the sparkle of your eyes, will you allow me to look at it hesitantly like a silent symphony?
Then I go and jump between the leaves of the sacred tree
and drink the nectar of dew drops as if it were from heaven
Categories:
crumbs, age, body, boyfriend, candy,
Form:
Free verse
winter squall
snowflakes peck away
the breadcrumbs
Categories:
crumbs, nature,
Form:
Haiku
A cookie crumbles
But is still just as sweet as
The one unbroken.
Categories:
crumbs, food, happiness, life, love,
Form:
Haiku
Man and wife are at opposite ends of the scale
When it comes agreeing on what's important in life, we fail
Obsessed with crumbs on the counter
Berates him till into a battle they flounder
Life's too short to worry about crumbs for peace to prevail
Categories:
crumbs, marriage,
Form:
Limerick
eating small cookie
leaving crumbs on kitchen floor
knowing where you've been
Categories:
crumbs, food,
Form:
Haiku
I can feel the seemingly invisible shards creeping along my skin, cutting me like glass.
The presence of these creatures alone swallows me whole and leaves me restless.
I promised you and myself that i wouldn’t open the doors to allow them in again,
But here we lay unsettled, in the shadows of the broken and the fragmented that were left behind.
I’m sorry that I ate saltine crackers in bed again.
Categories:
crumbs, boat, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
We work for them and drop them
So pigeons have a feast.
Indoors, they hide in dread of
The vacuum cleaner beast.
On coffee cakes and muffins,
They're something that we prize
And often they are sprinkled
On huckleberry pies.
The detritus of dinners
Or what's left when one succumbs,
Our lives are filled with highs and lows,
With both containing crumbs.
Categories:
crumbs, life,
Form:
Rhyme
trapped
within
slices of bread
we
live in
a multi-universes
i said
where
the
birds eat
the
cosmic crumbs
Categories:
crumbs, imagery, imagination, inspirational, introspection,
Form:
Haiku
Dreams are now bread crumbs
Little puzzle pieces we leave when we leave home
We never pick them up, never look back
Dreams are now bread crumbs
a trail we keep to memory
to find our way home
Tiny imaginary wishes
comforters that we return to
when things get rough
If dreamers are wasteful
then happiness is a lie
And all the lies in world
couldn't make me cry
I want to waste my days away
I want to cherish the crumbs
you so carelessly throw away
Breads crumbs, now dreams
A path to nowhere
but doesn't it have to lead somewhere?
Dreams are stale crumbs
pieces of bread, made a puzzle
and the picture is always missing
I want the best, for my way home
I want the dreams that never manifest
I want the impossible:
All these crumbs fto form a whole.
Categories:
crumbs, imagination, introspection, teen,
Form:
Free verse
Crumbs on the table, crumbs on the floor
And behind the door,
Crumbs on my clothes and even sometimes up my nose.
It's a mystery to me why,
No matter what I chose to eat, crumbs end up close by.
Yet my wife never leaves a one.
I can't give up my toast,
Not even for the one I love the most,
So I smother it with jam to keep the crumbs together.
Too many showers and I block the drains,
If I leave the vacuuming for long I blow the mains.
And that is not dandruff in my hair.
If there is a way to make me crumb free,
I don't mind paying a fee,
As I would like sometimes to eat breakfast in bed.
Categories:
crumbs, anxiety, blue, change, cheer
Form:
Light Verse