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Best Over Lunch Poems

Below are the all-time best Over Lunch poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of over lunch poems written by PoetrySoup members

Yesterday Love Was Such An Easy Game To Play

Yesterday,

I went home for lunch,

I never go home for lunch.

When I got to our apartment 
I don't know why but I didn't reach for my key. 

Francine...

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Categories: over lunch, betrayal, break up, heartbroken,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library

Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum, a thunderous beast,
Playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide, dreams just out of reach,
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles...

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Categories: over lunch, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form: Narrative

Little Miss Spring

They say it's a time to slip in the mud, and begin anew.
Kick off the dust of yester ...
      and...

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Categories: over lunch, adventure, appreciation, beauty, crazy,
Form: Light Verse

Sucker Punched

I can't recall exactly when
Life swung and hit me on my chin
I"m ashamed to say, it knocked me cold
When I came to, I woke up...

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Categories: over lunch, age, humor, life,
Form: Rhyme

In the Mood

lately, i have been in this female mood
for some kind of abandon, that
which exhales the tigress fire
out of my lungs digging the veins
from a week's'...

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Categories: over lunch, adventure, woman,
Form: Light Verse

In the Name of Dove -With Ram R V

little Rock
               Doves at my feet
     ...

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Categories: over lunch, appreciation, bird, , cute,
Form: Shape

A Chicago Pearl

A Chicago Pearl

She put her dreams on hold but carries them up proudly
as she serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner, six days a week
to make ends...

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Categories: over lunch, life,
Form: Free verse

A Homeless Man Named Robbie

Away to Vermont on a Dr's appointment. Coming back and riding the Ferry to New York my wife Judy and I decided to stop off...

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Categories: over lunch, heartbroken, love,
Form: Free verse

Pink Skies

POPPIES  &  MUSHROOMS 

I desire a beautiful sky.
One to inhale with my big brown eyes.
Fly like a kite, 
under the midday light.
Join me...

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Categories: over lunch, funny, me,
Form: Couplet

One Good Thing

In the late 1970s, I was going home on a Friday evening,
and needed a little more fuel in my truck, 
enough to get back to...

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Categories: over lunch, life, memory, poverty, work,
Form: Prose

One Life

There have been those who said,                   ...

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Categories: over lunch, food, green, home, jobs,
Form: Narrative

Coconut Kisses and Peppermint Streams

This is written in acknowledgement to the lovely sweet men and wonderful Poets on Poetry Soup who have supported and encouraged me since I first...

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Categories: over lunch, candy, chocolate, kiss, sweet,
Form: Rhyme

The Fire Inside

Today for lunch I dined on some Tex-Mex cuisine,
jalapeno topped enchiladas and refried beans;
a favorite here in Texas, that can’t be denied,
but this afternoon I...

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Categories: over lunch, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

A Hound Dog Tale

As the 
story
goes...

A
pesky
fly, 
came buzzing by
to rest and munch
and eat his lunch
and have some fun
on the hound dog's 
nose.

The old dog
snoozed 
without a clue
in the...

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Categories: over lunch, old,
Form: Free verse

Happy

I counted each bone in your fingers as you ran them through my hair..
your lips played a merry tune I almost knew., 
and the soft...

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Categories: over lunch, flower, growing up, happy,
Form: Free verse