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Decaf Poems - Poems about Decaf

Stimulation

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Hot coffee
black coffee
really has the means
when I sup but half a cup
to make me feel
quite full of beans
only one requirement tho'
no decaf if you please
and altho' born in Kenya
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Categories: decaf, drink, humorous, word play,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWhite Noise with Bangs

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She smiles like a mission statement—
all vision boards and decaf compassion.
Says she’s rooting for you,
then plants rumors like heirloom tomatoes:
carefully spaced, watered just enough
to gro...
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Categories: decaf, friend,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberArguing With Inanimate Objects

...Arguing with inanimate objects
Can be very distressing
To them
My Roomba drove itself down the stairs
The Keurig switched to decaf

Alexa told me where to go
Siri filed for a restraining order...
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Categories: decaf, humor, technology,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSipping Coffee

...“God within me is the enjoyer of the aroma

As also this dopamine boosting flavour I taste

I surrender all pleasures to the dweller of my heart

Breath by breath thus that my soul presence...
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Categories: decaf, abuse,
Form: Free verse

Glimpse Into The Writer's Head

...A girl rotting
A girl alone

She is still for hours
She is still forgotten

A girl downtrodden
A girl down on her luck 

She is drunk on misery
She wakes hungover on woe

A girl runs on d...
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Categories: decaf, confusion, deep, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberAre These My Golden Years

...Arthritis dictates much of what I do,
Relenting sometimes, though. Then I will be
Elated as I feel my strength renew,

Take walks pain-free and do, with energy,
Housework without completely wear...
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Categories: decaf, age, appreciation, joy,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberDalmation Diva

...Dalmatian diva dressed deliberately for dinner
Displaying delicate dainty polka dots, to try and look thinner
Drinking deliriously delicious decaf, starring at a Doberman grinner
Deciphering a des...
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Categories: decaf, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberIf I Were Your Love

...If I were your love,
All of the loves that I experienced before you appeared
Would not compare to the love I'd gladly offer and give to you.
You'd be my pearl of great price; all others being fors...
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Categories: decaf, love, romantic love,
Form: Verse

Breakfast Time Through Two Lenses

...As a young child
breakfast time was my favorite time of day
Mommy hovered over the flaming stove
as she sizzled a bundle of my favorite meals
tuna, corn beef, sardines , and steamed sausages
ser...
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Categories: decaf, childhood, food,
Form: Free verse

He Came At Me

...My heart's hinged door forcefully burst
But the instant coffee I owned was decaf!
My eyes died, parched of thurst,
My tearless decision was just to laugh.

These beatings last forever,
But I fi...
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Categories: decaf, appreciation, art, christian, how
Form: Rhyme

No More Coffee For Me

...No More Coffee for me

I used to love coffee
Still do
But coffee 
Well it is has turned on me

When I drink coffee
While watching the morning news
I become jittery, nervous
Crazed in a very...
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Categories: decaf, addiction, appreciation, desire,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAnother Kind of Virus

...There's another virus going around.

Flustered by everything COVID-19;
I am grateful I still have a job,
but grumpy I have to drive there in the rain -
I need to get to the fast lane or I'll be ...
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Categories: decaf, how i feel, humanity,
Form: Free verse

What We Eat

...The vegans eat their vegetables,
The carnivores their meat.
The gluten-haters stay away
From foods containing wheat.

The carbohydrate shunners
Won’t eat pasta, cake or bread
But can eat a pou...
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Categories: decaf, food,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWho Would Have Thought

...Who Would Have Thought
By Valerie D. Staton


The first time we met I was a bit scared
To be in a union unequally paired

You smoked cigarettes, I did not
You liked the cold weather, I liked ...
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Categories: decaf, love,
Form: Rhyme

Dear Guest

...At the sound of the gong you appear
to seek some welcome refreshment,
dear guests to be greeted right here 
with a cuppa is our sincere intent.

There's a flask of filter coffee 
and a pot of t...
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Categories: decaf, chocolate, drink, humorous,
Form: Quatrain

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