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Safeway Poems - Poems about Safeway

Premium MemberThe Road Drones

...The road drones as I run away,
one eye ahead, one on the rearview.
I squint and strain, blue-white beams on my tail.
Twin beams, staring, keeping distant pace.
	You say, "It's been five years and...
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Categories: safeway, conflict, courage, memory, relationship,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMy very own personal updates part one

...Here's an update---my home care worker was able to use--$14.25 at Safeway.
But they notified me that I still had a five dollar balance and I ordered two
three dollar cans of sardines and paid the $...
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Categories: safeway, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose



Croydon Pt 4

...You're a Street Map that has to be believed.
George Street 1975 then a jewel in everybody's Crown, Mister K too.
Croydon had it all, the weekly Safeway shopping -
Grants , North End, Greyhound and...
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Categories: safeway, anniversary,
Form: Free verse

Thief

...Brown bear
enters Safeway store
Steals Doritos...
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Categories: safeway, animal,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberAmerica What's the Issue Why Ya Eatin All the Toilet Tissue--

...Every time I go to the store;
I see those same bare walls;

What's the issue;
What's America doing eating toilet tissue;

Shelves are still empty,
no matter what time I go;
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Categories: safeway, allusion, analogy, anxiety, confusion,
Form: Lyric



Premium MemberThe Exchanges

...Raised up by earlier than early spring					
the daffodils thrust their honking horns				
at the promise of this newness, earned again 				
by slumbering through last year’s losses.			
Zach placed...
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Categories: safeway, allusion, daffodils, grandson, spring,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberAwakening

...In my dream they were an old couple wrinkled 
 
 small and gray smiling faces wishing us well 

 as I was growing old myselff with crinkled eyes
 
 away from any medical unexpected surprise

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Categories: safeway, beauty, inspirational, life,
Form: Rhyme

Pun With Eggs

...Benedict was tired, he’d been driving all day.  
This was his last delivery, 2 tonnes of eggs delivered to Safeway.  
The kid came out of nowhere, stared Benedict in the face,
He tried to brake, t...
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Categories: safeway, fun, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBargain Basement Shopping Diva

...5 and 10, a quarter to nine
                            The shops opening up at downtown, Man
                                   Must hurry up and hurry out
                    Get out of Woolwort...
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Categories: safeway, analogy, community, dedication, desire,
Form: Limerick

Five Dollar Friday At Safeway

...FIVE DOLLAR FRIDAY AT SAFEWAY,MY FAVORITE DAY OF THE WEEK.......
FROM EIGHT PIECES OF GOLDEN FRIED CHICKEN,AND MORE,BESIDES THAT I MUST SPEAK.............
BESIDES OF GOLDEN FRIED CHICKEN,THERE'S SO...
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Categories: safeway, appreciation, birthday, blessing, celebration,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberEggs

...Thought about over thirty years of Easter eggs
done up in a thousand different ways.
Finding late in the evening that the dregs
of eggs were spoiled and quickly to Safeway

to buy a few dozens t...
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Categories: safeway, appreciation,
Form: Sonnet

Saturation Point - Hawaii

...Saturation Point 

Dirt under my nails
A withered feeling
I did not notice the sun
Until I succumbed to a weakness
In by back and knees

My shoulders sagged
My eyelids were
Like those lead ...
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Categories: safeway, angel, courage, i love
Form: Free verse

The Last of the Funerals

...“the last of the funerals”

today “the last of the funerals”
takes place &
the killings in CT get placed on the
shelf,
alongside the deaths at Columbine,
Virginia Tech...

those were the “big ones” r...
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Categories: safeway, life, high school,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSafeway--California

...Whispers crackers to the cheese,
"Lean a little closer please...
I'll bet the party's tomorrow night"..
Cabernet shivered in sudden fright,
The olives decided to bide their time,
And snuggled cl...
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Categories: safeway, fantasy, funny
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSafeway --Washington

...Haughty Banana turns away from Cabbage and holds her nose.
Amorous Apple whispers to Peach, "You're much lovelier than Rose".
Fragile Lettuce edges away from frozen Maiden Ice Cream,
And shy Viole...
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Categories: safeway, adventure
Form: Rhyme

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