Best Kitchen Table Poems

A poem can be about anything you want
Convey any message you happen to have on your heart
Just find something smart to say - so the words will come gliding
Poetry can be many things
What warms your heart and thoughts
In a moment of joy or relieve your...

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‘Twas a round table from long in the past
Where a tradition was doomed not to last
Together with parents and children when…
Good manners, love, and kindness would begin.

There were no IPads or phones to be found
Spoken words at the table would abound
Where family games were played...

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The kitchen table 
was the centerpoint of childhood,
a place of gathering, 
an easel for artworks, battleground
for homework and Eden 
for the creation of lifeforms
moulded from plasticine. 

It was the Formica altar 
on which daily meals were celebrated,
a patch of the real, ground zero
for tears and...

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Can we sit across from each other again,
at a kitchen table one day?
Blue eyes focused, and steady,
not looking away,
or tempted to sway.
What seemed to be an adversary, callous words uttered of late, 
Offering friendship, 
and heartfelt apologies, at this late date.
How else to diffuse the...

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kitchen table monologues 14

we prayed hard once
to some obscure
dime store rag deity
the decrees
the pleas 
went unheeded
and we humbly
rose in accord
in disarrayed discord
more was needed
than this
may as well piss
into a warm southernly breeze
and save the skin 
on our knees...

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I would always tell people “If you want to change the line of your life and re-write all the stories behind, do not go to visit psychologists anymore, just try to buy a new Kitchen Table instead”.

When it comes with a refreshing waking up at...

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Place where we all meet 
guests are welcomed for coffee 
family table...

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Family meal time 
game time on family nights 
good place for writing...

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Ghosts are Better Guests Than Hosts
David J Walker
 
The ghosts are better guests
Than hosts
as they never dress for
the best occasions
Of course, they are invited to
Join us as the most naked among us
 
Leading us in translucent prayers and such  
Around the round chrome and...

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Our old fashioned kitchen ways,
way before the modern malaise,
those family favourite, radio days,
Swinging Blue Jeans, Johnny Ray,
Martha Reeves and Marvin Gaye,
those sentimental songs they played.

Our old fashioned kitchen ways,
without plastic meals from trays,
those salad days of mayonnaise,
with fablon coated, hollandaise,
and chicken roasted, lyonnaise,
experimental honey glaze.

Our...

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