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Fight or Flee

Fair legs aspire with striking delight.
Spellbound and geared up to run to die.
Firm sturdy steps leap to climb the treadmill.
Eyes fixed and two hands pull the safety pin.

Five minutes in, the sweaty minds unwind;
Each second tick brings new heaves of relief.
“Not so bad after all”, the mind secretes.
“To the end of time would be a

Categories: napkins, marriage,
Form: Free verse

Folded Napkins

The napkins were cut and woven in her dad’s barn that he and his dad built from the broken oaks. 
Each clump of cotton piled up in front of her 
Leave and left
She thought
The warp was fixed on her loom
And that was easy because it stayed
But the weft was the lateral thread that moved
Leave and

Categories: napkins, 7th grade, childhood, farm,
Form: Free verse

Napkins

Can napkins not esteem or honour
a history of being placed gently on laps
to catch, take hold of,
what is carelessly spilled or dropped,
used then to pat lips
before being rumpled tenderly, after eating,
and placed carefully at one's side?

At a table in a bar,
a paper napkin on my lap,
I look at friends:
they have their napkins
sitting at the sides

Categories: napkins, drink,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Clever Napkins

A million lovers lines, unread on clever napkins
The only kisses felt when a wiped face happens
When I think of you, with tears streaming down my face
It's because no one in this life or the next could ever take your place
When a picture of you is all that, I have to remember
How sweet your cheek feels

Categories: napkins, death, death of a
Form: Free verse

Paper Napkins

Paper napkins and plastic straws
Ex-lax was a laxative I recall
Bananas with black seeds
Young folks saying please
Things just seem to disappear

Phone booths everywhere
Merry Christmas said with cheer
That corner fireworks stand
Frying with lard from a tin can
Things just seem to disappear

Neighbors who are friends
Promise kept by politicians
News that actually informed
Soft white bread wasn't scorn
Things just seem to

Categories: napkins, change, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Napkins

Need paper day and night,
nervous if out of sight,
normally you stock up,
not today out of luck,
nature makes frantic call,
no time to sit and bawl,
napkins is next of kin.




4-30-17

Categories: napkins, anxiety, humor,
Form: Verse

Pinching Napkins

I'm shuffling trays of food
and placing them up front.
I'm spilling on the way
in stains I'll later hunt.

I'm ever pinching napkins
and wiping spots of sauce.
Forever wiping up them
so later I can toss.

I've piled the garbage higher
with sweet and sour rags.
Left scrunched into a bow
to finish them of drags.

I'll order in more napkins
to later fill the rack.
But

Categories: napkins, business, career, character, dedication,
Form: Quatrain

Napkins For Food

She pressed on tightly
Gripping her cloth
Dusting all the dark
Arranging all the packages
She clutched at the years
At all the stillborn frozen dinners

Half parasitic blood
She shrieked at allowance
Thinking she could control
A golden son she never knew

Still, with her napkin
She went to wipe his face
Which had changed considerably
Though she clutched the image of her baby
Deathly afraid of loss

Clinging

Categories: napkins, caregiving, childhood, people,
Form: Free verse

Napkins

Plastic ware is fine
Favorite restaurant to dine
 Hickory smoked swine

Categories: napkins, food
Form: Senryu

Box-Tops, Napkins, Paper, and Old Mail-

Box-tops, Napkins, Paper, and Old Mail…

One thing for sure, listen, will you please?
I do not write on tissue paper… sneeze!
But write upon most anything… Not walls!
My pen or pencil marks fulfilled flow falls.

And anyplace will do to write away.
In the moment inspiration comes to play,
Revealing ever-poignant thoughts, words spanned.
Whatever spark or flow falls to my

Categories: napkins, on writing and wordswords,
Form: Sonnet