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Best On The Same Plate Poems

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Premium Member Big Girls Do Cry
They expected her to be the jolly fun one.
The one   w e a r i n g   a smile on her...

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Categories: on the same plate, courage, freedom, growth, moving
Form: Free verse



Premium Member When Madness Rides On Moonlight
Days pass into the weak, loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath Van Gogh’s brush, as he links.
Comet light passes twisting cypresses, a schizophrenic’s...

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Categories: on the same plate, god, life,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Counting Seconds-The Rewrite
i sit lonely. 

the crowded restaurant is thick with sound 

i pick away at it 

moving back into the stagnant silence 
of my own comfort

the...

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Categories: on the same plate, mental illness,
Form: Prose
Premium Member New Menu at Milton Creek's Aces Restaurant
*** Notice to the residents of Milton Creek ***

Tom serves as mayor. never complaining, so he gets what he requests 
No blood in his steak,...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on the same plate, people, places,
Form: Rhyme
Ironbar
He just appeared to me, like wispily curling 
Chimney smoke, 
One grim and early morning in the very midst of 
Decembers briefest days, on the...

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Categories: on the same plate, nature, universe,
Form: Rhyme



The Way It Goes
It should have been all roses
But little did she know
Naive girl still
 in her mama's shell

"There's no such rose without a thorn"

Though stories have been...

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Categories: on the same plate, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member I Lay Me Down
(For Dad ... I love you and miss you, and time doesn't help)

            ...

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Categories: on the same plate, death, father son, grief,
Form: Rhyme
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: on the same plate, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Inconvenient Rhyme Times
I’ve lost more prose				Driving in my car,
than I’ve written				navigating traffic,
for they often come unbidden		poems form like magic.
not minding where.				I can’t release the wheel
They haven’t the...

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Categories: on the same plate, giggle, inspiration, memory, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Food Inglorious Food
Be it known as convenience food, junk food or munchies;
whether spicy, melt-in-your-mouth soft, or crunchy,
food, inglorious food, seduces with ease
and ensnares with the emptiest of...

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Categories: on the same plate, food,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Everyday Is Beautiful
Everyday is beautiful, son,
and no that's not being optimistic.
You're here - you're alive - with one more day on your plate.
That's just being realistic.

Tuesdays are...

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Categories: on the same plate, appreciation, cheer up, children,
Form: Carpe Diem
Share Not
When I go out to dinner,
I do not want to share.
I don’t care what is on your plate;
I don’t want to compare.

I scan the menu...

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Categories: on the same plate, food, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member You Kissed Him In Front of Me
You didn’t notice my tears.

As you both kissed each other
like two lonely plungers
who just escaped from plumber’s solitary confinement,
your eyes open and wander up.

You didn’t...

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Categories: on the same plate, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, thank you,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Madness Rides On Moonlight
Days pass into the weakest of loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath the colored brush of Van Gogh. He links.
Comets trail snowfields of...

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Categories: on the same plate, lovegod, light, god, life,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member The Devil Made Me Do It
It had been a long night, an hour drive just to be with my sister. One must stay in touch with family; it’s the right...

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Categories: on the same plate, anger, feelings, relationship,
Form: Haibun

Book: Shattered Sighs