Dining Room Poems

Premium MemberSTOLEN VALOR CRUEL AND VERY CRIMINAL INTENT 101 AIRBORNE SCREAMING EAGLES

...STOP STOLEN VALOR AGAINST DISABLED WAR HEROS AND THEIR FAMILIES MY WONDERFUL HUSBAND MY WONDERFUL WAR HERO EXPERIENCING A HORROR NO MILITARY FAMILY SHOULD EVER ENDURE AFTER SEVERAL BREAK INS HOME INV...
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Categories: dining room, allah,
Form: Naat

Premium MemberDust to Dust

...I am looking out my dining room window, overlooking the birdbath in the small garden of my flat. The arum lilies have added a new bloom—just as the last one is dying off—beside the grave marker of my...
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Categories: dining room, bird, flower, grave, grief,
Form: Other


Premium MemberTrue Story

...Walking in the front door with my sisters in tow, the phone on the sideboard in the dining room started ringing incessantly.  Upon answering the phone, a very determent voice accosted my ear with, ‘Y...
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Categories: dining room, death, grief, parents, satire,
Form: Other

Swicker Turf

...Grueling Smiles
is a book about a couple
the woman had married a man who had been married Twelve times.
She had been married twice and would do anything to keep her current husband loyal to her an...
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Categories: dining room, character, culture, film, music,
Form: Ballad

While Oboes Played Strings were Strummed

...Welo and Shewa 
and the Opals of the Region
Darkwin Clouds damped the outdoor festivities leading
the onlookers to go indoors. There these to beautiful women
stood modeling there wears there beau...
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Categories: dining room, engagement, film, hip hop,
Form: Ballade


Manifesto

...I live in Toronto
For 46 years now
This is the city I love
I don't want to leave Toronto
For my
Birth city
There is nothing there for me
Also Toronto is a expensive city
To live
And I need t...
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Categories: dining room, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Shrunken Head and Other Mysteries

...In the book nook I found it—
a face no bigger than my palm,
leathered and silent,
its eyes forever pressed shut
against whatever it had seen.
Grandma said a missionary friend
brought it back fr...
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Categories: dining room, childhood, grandmother, image, memory,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOdd Hours

...It’s four AM
I’m wide awake
no chance of more sleep
clicking noises 
from the dining room
low hum
is it voices?
I get up
pad into the dining room.
daughter and grandson
playing Yahtzee
at ...
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Categories: dining room, family, fun, humor,
Form: Free verse

snowflake meatball sandwich

...snowflake meatball sandwich
it has been a long time
in honor of you, i add the monterey jack
it is such a shame that you died alone with all phones completely off
the tears fall quietly as i prep...
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Categories: dining room, death of a friend,
Form: Free verse

Lunch

...I will order in just a minute.
If there’s grilled cheese, I want in on it.
Or maybe I could have some fries.
Which is on the menu to my surprise.
I enjoy a burger on some days.
But maybe not Mon...
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Categories: dining room, fish, fun,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberInnocence and Snowflakes

...To her, their apartment was the whole world—a small but cozy place where she felt safe and loved.

It was early morning. She heard her sister squeal with joy hearing that schools would be closed to...
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Categories: dining room, child, death, family, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse

A NEW WORLD

...My old lady dropped a needle
From the cloth she was sewing
A fart of zaracatan or tailor's fart buzzed
That, in the silence of the afternoon
Made me flee quickly from the sewing room.
The news f...
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Categories: dining room, engagement,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberQUIRKY TURKEY

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T’was the night before Christmas, my favorite night,
Excitement, the Christmas tree, presents wrapped bright,
Preparations in full swing for Christmas Day,             
Midnight service, carol...
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Categories: dining room, bird,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPaul Scarlet Roses

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Outside the dining room window
separated by a canopy 
of grape vines and a small patch
of grass, was a corrugated iron
fence weathered to a dull glaze 
of rust and covered by a trellis 
on ...
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Categories: dining room, flower, grandmother,
Form: Free verse

Cooking Class

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You got me you got me baby
You got me, and I am your lady 

You got me eating out of your hand;
I am  your number one fan 
You know,  I am your lady; 

And I've been working hard
I've bee...
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Categories: dining room, sexy,
Form: Free verse

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