Best Placemat Poems

Autumn’s table set
          with one less placemat this year,
                           ...

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I notice the single placemat within the circle of noise,
Placing my phone on the cluttered side plate,
I can feel the Christmas spirit resonating through,
The crowd of extended families unwrapping each other’s joy,
A tear drops onto my unused napkin,
My mind races with memories of family togetherness,
The...

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The Marriage Supper of the Lamb

There was a trumpet that sounded in Heaven
the Marriage Supper of the Lamb has all been set, 
the call is now stronger than ever
surely you don’t want to be left.

The angels in Heaven have been scurrying
more than ever and making...

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A seven day event 
Based on African descent 
Culminating in giving gifts and a large feast
Based on African festivals ranging from the West to the Southeast. 
Within, you will discover the seven principles and seven symbols 
Kwanzaa also has several hymnals

The first day represents unity
Within...

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So you want this so bad?
Incorrigible lad
Your excesses will come back to haunt you,
But we may do a deal
Under this seal
Unless common sense doth daunt you.

Should push come to shunt
You’ll bear the brunt
Of an outlying cost that may shock you,
A bribe? You dare say
And ask...

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Today was Special Person’s Day
At pre-school, for the 3’s.
One guest per child and I was picked,
An honor I did seize.

Each child announced his person
Then we hunted for their names
On a placemat on the table
Where we sat and made some frames.

There was fruit to eat and...

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Mother, did you mind whenever I lose
 patience at your antics? When I frown and
 get mad whenever you aim your blue
 slippers and hit my face right 
 on target? When you don't have anything 
 more to throw because they're all by
 my...

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Menu A or Menu B ? oh dear! quite a dilemma really. ha

Tadpoles induced symphonies in a bowl of custard cued. But cued is neither curd nor carved caverns catering cafés. Cafés cage craterous carefully created considerate cream crêpes and deepest are the deepest diamond...

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The keys to a duck monument are timely hidden by an egg basket. Egg baskets can play marvellous games of ball in the high season when the brilliance of the sun passes through the earthenware titles like a mist above an ocean. How rather ravishing...

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COMBAT

Look at the placemat, land sat
Begat of that play nothing prevails
I place my hat on a hook
Threw it didn't take a first look
Muskrat  Nebat fell on the bell
Trip and fell down the wishing well
On that,pack rat  Larrirette he can hardy find his belt
My,...

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Brat cat scat pet 
look at black rat 
Muskrat packrat 
Cool cat placemat 
Coon cat d'etat
Does that true cat
... slouch hat snaw at

11/10/19
Written by James Edward Lee Sr...

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I like my soup hot, fresh, cold but bone broth is the basis for what makes soup, soup. Not stones. Stones have no nutritional value.
Throw me a bone and I’ll put in my soup. 
All alone.  By itself, it’s rather bland. 
Put in a...

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First it was only a joke.
Something to poke fun at.
After all it wasn’t in our habitat.

Then it crept into our country like smoke.
Not a bother we thought quietly,
And vowed to pray and act piously. 

But it started to intrude into the Midwest.
Still a joke, still...

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Black king seeks a pawn, the hour ... ink affects,
pleasures acquaint of camouflage tactics,
pleasures game on, decent for chess, black tux,
meet in a square, grassy looks seemed protects.
Hopes for one more nights ... hopes this be the night.
Former spokesrat; the lamb, sized a rat.
Latter spokesowl;...

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I burned your placemat.
A sunny yellow flower.
I used it at my desk.
It was ANOTHER thing I had ruined.
You emphasized ANOTHER.
Another thing I can't do right.
Another thing I took.
Another mistake.
It left a mark on my pristine, white desk.
A caramel brown.
I tried to get it out,
But it...

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