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Out To Lunch Poems - Poems about Out To Lunch

I Wish You Knew Her
...I wish you knew her When You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown was running I wish you would’ve seen her that night Beaming with pride At her grandchild who had been cast in the role Of Snoopy as a f......

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Categories: out to lunch, emotions, grandmother, grief, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member WEST COAST JAZZ
...You can smell jazz, if you got hip to the sound, like on “Camera Three” a TV program in the 50s/ a 1956 episode featuring The Gerry Mulligan Quartet in black -N- white/ many jazz clubs come and......

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Categories: out to lunch, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word



Premium Member When Cupid Hit the Punch - TRI
...Cupid went on a tear that day he hit the punch. His shots went here and there. He sure was out to lunch. That day he hit the punch and ventured to the zoo to where his arrows flew. His sho......

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Categories: out to lunch, animal, humor, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Day Of Dying
...The eerie thing is The day of your dying Will be a normal day You may need to clear your head You step out, saying bye to your wife And just like that. Or maybe you're travelling back to y......

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Categories: out to lunch, anxiety, bereavement, death, death
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Out to Lunch
... Joe’s out to Lunch He’ll be back right away (Try again, sucker next Friday) Joe just stepped out or he’s with a client Joe lies a lot But he’s compliant......

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Categories: out to lunch, integrity, sorry, work,
Form: Rhyme



February 13th, 2023 old man winter gave a one two punch
...February 13th, 2023 - old man winter gave a one...two punch Overladen snow covered crackle and crunch though, this skeptic owned a doubtful hunch that such 24/7 round the clock whether coverage ......

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Categories: out to lunch, abortion, abuse, age, anger,
Form: Rhyme
The Great Catching Away part one
..."Hey Ray," shouted Jason, "After all of this time do you still believe that the return of Jesus Christ is still very imminent?" "Hey Jason," replied Ray, "You used to believe that too, what on......

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Categories: out to lunch, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Communique
...The door is closed The shutter down No voices heard Now out of town Portcullis, locks A barricade Small chance to rescue What was made The landing pad A storm does seize To wildest r......

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Categories: out to lunch, confusion, forgiveness, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Advice Because I Love You
...When the good things happen take a photo in your mind So you can reach in and get it when others ain’t so kind. When someone special comes along, laugh and play with them for fun. Keep these memor......

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Categories: out to lunch, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Practice Punch At Lunch
...Smith was out to lunch or maybe it might be brunch had to practice punch we should realize what Smith did was compromise had not been too wise Putin with a crew bad things he will do to yo......

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Categories: out to lunch, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Jealousy
...As she takes her last breath Leaving her children behind They finally realize What Jealousy really means There goes all the midnight talk The out to lunches Just a phone call away The stori......

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Categories: out to lunch, death, family, jealousy,
Form: Free verse
Road Kill
...Death failed to show up for work one day, the clock remained unpunched Hospital’s waiting, graveyards on call, all coroner’s out to lunch Death took a holiday without checking in, the peckin......

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Categories: out to lunch, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Honeymoon
...One or two dead sheep lay by the road. We saw a hairpin bend signed 'Beware of Blind People Crossing' as we drove from Dublin, West to Connemara's wild Atlantic shores To black rock crags ......

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Categories: out to lunch, holiday, husband, wife,
Form: Free verse
The Dancing: the Last Dance
...Was it a cruel twist of fate? Sneering, laughing chance? Perhaps something I ate? A bad bout of happenstance? It wrenched and tore at my gut, A sickening, sober, foreboding sign. Wretched cha......

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Categories: out to lunch, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Allan's Happy Ending, Part I
...Allan leaned back in his chair as he munched on a piece of bread at the small cafe, he daydreamed idly as he sat there, his wife Janet was again running late. He didn’t mind, since he had the t......

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Categories: out to lunch, death, heaven, husband, loss,
Form: Narrative

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