Best Plate Poems

A Plate of Disorder

Are you ready to Disorder Sir?
What can I tempt you for a starter,
May I recommend the Turmoil Soup?
Garnished with Havoc Green Tartar.

For the main, perhaps our house speciality,
Goujons of Chaos and Sweet Bedlam.
With a Medley of Confusion and Mess,
Served on a bed...

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Sometimes extraordinary earthquakes radically rearrange the landscape
Sometimes continents collide, violently vying for the same space
Sometimes the savanna becomes a mountain range dividing two valleys

Sometimes your two best friends are a girl and a guy
she likes him
you like her

Sometimes the savanna becomes a mountain range dividing...

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Paper Plate

serve me well friend poet;
flavor anew words I've
eaten all my life.

Kathryn McLoughlin Collins
July 16, 2011...

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The beggar in my street
The subject of my hate
An eyesore I felt he was
The old man with his plate

Sunshine or rains, chill or heat
Never had I pity for his fate
Yet he had that toothy grin
The old man with his plate

Mosquitoes crowned his head
Flies and insects...

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Plate Tectonics

When crust and mantle- 
Meet beneath the steal gray seas
Fiery flames burn.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
March 9, 2008...

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For days at a time there is nothing to eat,
There is no where to sleep.
Hunger is a social condition. 
It is a horrible physical way of living.
It leads to malnutrition, famine, and starvation.
It is a plaque and epidemic in poor nations.
First off there is so...

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It's a round ball with a wooden bat.
Take some time to swing with that.

Ninety feet will get you there, 
From the lefty box (it's square).

Toward right, straight down the path,
Did you step up to take a bubble bath?

If you're moving on, you're making sense, 
Leaving...

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I wait for the deluge
To see Arizona's Coast
Join hands, tread water....

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I can only speake for myself now, so if it don't apply [to you] let it fly.
Though I'm not the only one, facing tribulation. So why want I cry....{???}..(Caused)
crying not for me and I don't know WHY-Yall !!...For it seem I've run out of
tear's, it...

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The sonics,
Of earth’s plate tectonics,
Was given birth,
By the wobble of the earth,
While the wobble of the earth,
Was given birth,
By the carnal mind invention,
Which reversed love’s intention,

Now the earth reveals,
How love feels,
About the mind’s rejection,
Of love’s perfection,

Now the earth reels to and fro,
Like a drunk man...

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number two sees all
the runners and the pitches
controls the ballgame...

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It's a celebration of life,
It's a celebration of self,
An inner spirit and style,
expressed thru blazes of color.
Daring to be an original,
in a gallery of the commonplace....

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Afternoon Tea
in a bone china cup
Tastes nicer
don’t you agree
~
Earl Grey tea
especially
when poured
from a teapot
after brewing
not stewing
~
For exactly the time
that it takes
for to make
a nice cup 
of Earl Grey tea
~
Lay out your best china
Royal Albert ~ Liberty
On a tray 
On a cake stand
there all...

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An old man remembers what he has been
yet the details are unimportant. Then
the outline disappears, and the meaning.

Good, I can die or go to work, be wise
or a jerk. Rich or poor, the wind and rain
wear us away and it's o.k.

Ask what matters, that
question. Feeling...

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I want to hold it 
I want to kiss it
My souvenir of love
I want to press my face on it

To bring me luck
To bring me joy
To bring me love
My silver plate of love

Like a medal and 
Like a Grammy statue
Sweet as success
Bright as gold
My silver...

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