Best Takeaways Poems

I don’t know about you but I think it right
That kids should eat at the table, most every night.
Sit down with mum, sit down with...

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Relic of a raucous night's revel
In an empty shop doorway
Stands a solitary cider bottle sentinel

Bundles of bedding. Beneath 
Huddles a barely visible body
Whom I have...

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Disco dreams and disco balls 
Big city,bright lights 
Pub crawls and bar fights. 
Mini frocks and hair dyes 
Made up faces 
Mascara filled eyes. 
Vodka...

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Am I the only One who sees the need elsewhere,
Who objects to TV's in the takeaway shop here,
The hospital waiting room over there,
And one in...

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How will they remember us 
Those born after the war. 
What will they say about us.

Will they fully grasp the level of our sell out
Our...

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pickle a paper and print paint playfully pointing pins
Knitting needles in a fish and chip shop is about as useful or as necessary as eating...

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POEM 1 WHEN THE TIME IS RIGHT WE WILL BE TOGETHER 

WHEN THE TIME IS RIGHT 

WE WILL BE TOGETHER 

I BELIEVE THAT WHEN THE...

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A Shaggy Tale
By Jan Beaumont ©

My hairdresser - like me -
is still on lockdown
My image in the mirror's
made it crack
I'm thinking I should go 
into...

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Easy don't come easy.


When I think back to what we had,
It breaks my heart and makes me sad, 
Not because we said goodbye, 
Just because...

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I’M JUST SO PASSIVE

Trolling all the restaurants and the takeaways on the high street
Whiffing all the smells of the cooking, but: never stopping to eat

Then...

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So long
I'm
Gone
No more
Occasions,
Forsaken
Takeaways
Hidden,
Ensuring
Touch finger fail,
Intimacy scorned
Maligned,
Engagement called off
Serendipity suspended....

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Still smarting from stupid scamming fraudsters...
five months ago to the day

Twas the cusp of tooth thousand
twenty three summer solstice,
when yours truly (a fool
and his money...

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****Dedicated to my bestie and those late nights and early mornings filled with turbulent tears and triumphant takeaways from early lessons and heartbreaks****

Here I am...

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Religion has too many givens,
the takeaways few, far between

Questioning ravaged, intelligence savaged
—the mind left to wander and dream

(Bryn Mawr College: February, 2020)...

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Psychologically still thirteen 

Ordinarily meaning pre Internet days
familiarization with me would entail
bringing the avid listener 
into my private mancave hideaways
less a physical place than a...

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