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Best Dinnertime Poems

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Premium Member Dinnertime Stories
Dinner with friends while soft candlelight glows
We're dressed in formal attire, both genders
Goblets of wine while conversation flows,
what fond memories the moment renders.

Shared recollections from...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dinnertime, friendship,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member My Addingham
(The memories are simple, living the feeling significant)

After conquering Beamsley Beacon due Southwest,
Rombald’s moor stood, while for centuries
within the valley the minute dwellings
of grey stone,...

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Categories: dinnertime, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Why Pa Ain'T Pet Sittin' No More
While Ma was away, Pa lost Tweety
while pet-sittin’ for his friend Petey.
Then at dinnertime, Ma
said, “I’m so sorry, Pa,
but this bird I found ain’t very...

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Categories: dinnertime, funny,
Form: Limerick
Procrastination
I’m thinking about thinking about retiring
     Not sure when that will be
I know I need to make a change
  ...

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Categories: dinnertime, humorous, retirement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Time To Dine
renard slyly skulks
in the leafy undergrowth
success… dinnertime!

Renard - traditional french word for fox

27th May 2015...

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Categories: dinnertime, animal,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Gulf Stream Beckons
Spending three full days and two nights at sea
Is surely the best vacation for me

Conch chowder dinner the night before
At dawn adieu to the Key...

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Categories: dinnertime, adventure, seavacation,
Form: Couplet
On Juno Ranch, a Cowboy's Day
If you'd have lived and worked on Juno Ranch, you’d have come away better for it. It 
may not have seemed like it at the...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dinnertime, cowboy-western, inspirational, life, on
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Idea Marbles

I got a lot of thoughts
rolling around in my head
Idea marbles,
colored black, blue, white and red
That’s very Afro-American of me
to be thinking this way
This ol’...

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Categories: dinnertime, fun, how i feel,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Evening Comes
Evening comes with a quiet softness.
Welcome after the day's many demands.
Dinnertime has come and gone.
A sigh of relief, anticipating the next few relaxing hours.
Watching the...

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Categories: dinnertime, appreciation, beach, meaningful, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Guaranteed Weight-Loss Program
   Vast sums of money
     enormous chunks of time
   All spent on losing weight ~
  ...

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Categories: dinnertime, business, car, health, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where Do We Come In
Where do we come in
					in medias res  not knowing nor caring when
doesn’t everybody pine being number one we leave behind our lives in pages...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dinnertime, caregiving, character, humanity, leadership,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
A Family Praising
A gather of hands
A feasting at dinnertime
Hear the sounds of smiles...

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Categories: dinnertime, faith, family, food
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Gator Bait
Country living in New Hampshire was like heaven on earth.
It was Nature in her glory with the spring’s rebirth.
We owned a big pond and had...

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Categories: dinnertime, animal, beautiful, beauty, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Worth a Shot
Worth A Shot

I didn’t want to alienate the capricious alien who ate
my malignant scapegoat Harry who refused to gravitate
outside to chew my weeds although he...

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Categories: dinnertime, humorous,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member If
If I could be there
			at home tonight, I'd spend quality time with 
            ...

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Categories: dinnertime, appreciation, family, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things