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Hot Plate Poems - Poems about Hot Plate

Premium MemberNo Sign of Wigs

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The siblings in our family consisted of 4 brothers and 8 sisters.
The boys were right at home in keeping our hair washed and combed.
On the other hand, the 8 girls wore pony tails, braids, and ...
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Categories: hot plate, family, hair,
Form: Narrative

Yams

...If you’ve got beef with me, 
Please season it to taste. 
Every word of hate is just a breath you waste, 
The face of disbelief, 
Will you ever forgive yourself come the end of days? 
Sweet honey...
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Categories: hot plate, allusion, conflict, confusion, future,
Form: Free verse



Connections

...I can feel this thread running all over me, it’s like I am connected to the deep blue sea and the current is pulling me into the deep dragging me towards an unplanned destiny; the cords are running i...
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Categories: hot plate, appreciation, beautiful, business, caregiving,
Form: Narrative

Where the Ice Runs Hot

...Slow flames under the blacktop,
simmer-ghost rise
from the sloughing road.

Rubber scorches its skin
shedding blackened snakes.

It's a hot day,
creeping turtles fill pot-holes
with their ho...
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Categories: hot plate, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOnions

...The old church lay in ruins, left to languish in time.
He was sitting on the grave talking to Sergeant R Johnston.
Well, I suppose you want an update on the war.
Let me see now, where do I begin.
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Categories: hot plate, death, humor, soldier,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberA Small Room

...What a small room - my finger traces dust across the plain table.
What did Grandma DO here? I glance around for electrical sockets - none to be seen.
Her life was spent staring out the window, at 3...
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Categories: hot plate, family, grandmother, growing up,
Form: Free verse

Father's Logical Thinking

...I tried to tell me young bloke about the job behind a ‘barrer’,
and I’ll admit it’s hard to keep him on the straight and ‘narrer’.
It’s not that I have the coppers bashing down our flamin’ door,
b...
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Categories: hot plate, humor,
Form: Rhyme

2018, the Good Old Days

...2018, The Good Old Days

Come 2035 and you will hear
Grandma and Grandpa in their tubular porch swing,
“Remember Iphones and lap top computers?
And telephones that vibrated and didn’t ring.

I...
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Categories: hot plate, allusion, future, humorous,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberMotel Room

...Motel room, U.S. map made of license plates
everything I need for a week is here, king-
size bed, microwave, fridge, tv, hot plate
the carpet's pretty clean, the bathroom baptized
and there are t...
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Categories: hot plate, america, change, fear, imagination,
Form: Verse

What Luck

...put your hand on my chest
feel my inside beating
the pressure you provide
a flutter tickling my flight

always in awe
i come across such a condition
the reverence burned into my side
the humb...
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Categories: hot plate, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Flirtin With Fire Blowin It Up

...flirting with fire blowin it up in the most earnest desire
 her perfume was led to basement blues remove those shoes
 bask in the news then you will se a falsified game of reality
 in society we g...
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Categories: hot plate, art, baby, basketball, rap,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHot Plate of June

...HOT PLATE OF JUNE

Plumes of unskilled daisies scatter, undone.
Pure bouquet brightens the borrowed garden.

Blue garter tight around her upper thigh, croon.
Anticipation simmers on...
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Categories: hot plate, sensual, wedding,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberConsuming Failure

...Consuming Failure


Pay heed the dancing chickens hot plate feet
lest you believe the music makes him strut
outrunning death by curried peppers sweet

the cooling of the iron his sole treat
k...
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Categories: hot plate, life, metaphor, school, success,
Form: Villanelle

Teatime

...We wondered what we could have for tea,
So we opened the freezer just to see.
Ah! Crispy duck we did espy,
Thought we would give it a try.

How to cook it we did not know,
On the back was the w...
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Categories: hot plate, funny, simple,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWisdom From Pain

...To her beauty I am mesmerized
To her heart I am magnetized
Her reply of YES my heaven surprise
My being her HUSBAND my grand prize

Early years, bed of roses, we shared
Commitment of marriage, a fair...
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Categories: hot plate, feelings, growth, husband, inspirational,
Form: Verse

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