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Best Set The Table Poems

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Premium Member Hopes and Wishes
A wish is hope, all dressed up
A heart that needs to sing...
And I have 3 songs  today,
Hopes and wishes, that I bring...

I wish ...

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Categories: set the table, hope, introspection
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Playing Make-Believe
I have many happy dreams of my childhood life,
      Mother and father and grandma made it special;
Playing make-believe was something...

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Categories: set the table, childhood, dream, happiness,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Bordeaux Kiss
I set the table, place for one
Pour the wine, cork undone
Filet mignon, to perfection done
Topped with greens, and a sauce of rum

The evening sets, as...

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Categories: set the table, food, introspection, life, romantic,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Sweet Tater Pie
Down in Alabam where big sweet taters grow
lives great aunt Cyndi diggin dirt with a hoe.
Up in the morn bout the crack o’ dawn
see for...

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Categories: set the table, familysweet, sweet, , sweet
Form: Rhyme
Barefoot Rice and Hot Souse
Cook white rice with ochroe in
                   ...

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Categories: set the table, food,
Form: Epulaeryu



Dead End
...inspired by 'Cul-De-Sac' by Allen Tate


The golden sheen had turned to rust,
the laughter to a pile of rags,
the joy to ghostly lamentations,
how the weighted second...

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Categories: set the table, sad
Form: Verse
Premium Member Trumpet Call
My heart is the same full of love
     My house that shelters it full of pain
But it's autumn in my life,...

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Categories: set the table, death, imagination, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme
Dead End
...inspired by 'Cul-De-Sac' by Allen Tate


The golden sheen had turned to rust,
the laughter to a pile of rags,
the joy to ghostly lamentations,
how the weighted second...

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Categories: set the table, dedication, writing,
Form: Verse
My Rendition of Psalm 23
The Lord’s my shepherd, my soul He doth keep,
I shall not want, for I’m His well-fed sheep,

In green pastures, He makes me to lie down,
Leads...

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Categories: set the table, bible, inspirational,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Mismatched Dishes Beautiful
I was born an old soul and always a
    step out of time.  It seems old things just like me
and come...

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Categories: set the table, old,
Form: Verse
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
Ask not about what the future may bring.
Whether sorrow shall reign or happiness ring.
Breathe deeply the aroma from life's belfry.
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE....

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Categories: set the table, life, philosophyfuture,
Form: Carpe Diem
How To Be a Man
Take out the trash on Tuesday and remember the white bags are recyclable; 
Don’t mix the trash with the pig food, we’re saving the world;...

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Categories: set the table, dedication, environment, farm, hero,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Generations
The time has come to step aside.
It’s been a very lovely ride.
I trained my darling daughter well.
It’s she who rings the dinner bell
on holidays and...

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Categories: set the table, familymother, daughter, sweet, thanksgiving,
Form: Rhyme
Who Cooks For You
“Who cooks for you?”
asked the Bard.

Who prepares your meal?
Do you sup alone?
Any condiments?
Salt perhaps?
Spices?

What are you hungry for?
What appeals to your taste?

When you rise in...

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Categories: set the table, bible, bird, christian, faith,
Form: Imagism
Baking
I'd rather be inside doing the baking
Than the one being baked outside in the sun.

I never learned how to barbecue,
As my Dad ran away when...

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Categories: set the table, art, beauty, celebration, change,
Form: Personification

Book: Shattered Sighs