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Dinnertime Poems

Dinnertime Stories - Revised

Cast of shadows, courtesy of candle,
Light fading unfolds the same tale at dusk.
Soliloquized retellings of scandal,
Lengthy but worthy, as faults to unhusk.

Memories gone cold, my table setting,
Echoing attenuated laughter.
Plates piled high with the feasts of forgetting,
Still doleful hungers linger thereafter.

The flickering cloister of flames confer,
Enkindling solace in the solitude.
Tacit acceptance, no protest to stir,
Away from

Categories: dinnertime, light, loneliness, memory, relationship,
Form: Sonnet

Dinnertime Stories

Dinner with friends while soft candlelight glows
We're dressed in formal attire, both genders
Goblets of wine while conversation flows,
what fond memories the moment renders.

Shared recollections from decades, gone by.
Good times of laughter and those when we cried.
Melancholy, it was a night spent without a dry eye,
happy tears and sad ones, we could not hide.

Round the damask

Categories: dinnertime, friendship,
Form: Sonnet

Dinnertime Stories

Did you know that it is dinner, my dear?
You forever in your room thee door shut.
You needeth join us, lend a willing ear? 
Thee father has great stories of wisdom.

You make your ears always deaf to our speech, 
Refusal brings no supper to your plate.
Ungrateful child, listen to your dad preach,
Remember, child, we are your

Categories: dinnertime, childhood, deep, family, for
Form: Sonnet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Dinnertime Drama

She couldn't loose the noose
  of his madman's grip

As she clutched his last
  ~ potato chip

Categories: dinnertime, crazy, food, wife,
Form: Light Verse

Dinnertime

GLUTTONY

We hunger for the salted tales 
of bland and spiceless lives
We gorge ourselves on tasteless news 
as soon as it arrives
We savor cuts of bigotry 
then stuff ourselves with hate
While grinding on the rumor mill 
that seasons up our plate

Categories: dinnertime, introspection,
Form: Rhyme

Dinnertime

Cinquain,
Five twenty two,
Time to prepare dinner,
Hearty feast of poetic verse,
Enjoy!

Categories: dinnertime, on writing and words,
Form: Cinquain

Dinnertime

When entering the epicenter that is our kitchen
I immediately sensed the seismic activity
My ears tuned to the argument that was ensuing
the growing magnitude on the Richter scale
the continental drift between my mother and father
It made me turn to follow Denali (the family dog) 
who was smart enough to flee
....He knew before me
 
"Get back here"

Categories: dinnertime, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse

Dinnertime

People are crying, children are dying
People surround and the baby is crying.
Blow your mind it's dinnertime
sit around and watch the world go by
Blow your mind it's dinnertime
why do we sit and watch the world die?
Children are starving, armies bombarding
Countries blown up and the president's starring.
Blow your mind it's dinnertime
sit around and watch the world go

Categories: dinnertime, sad, world,
Form: Rhyme