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Saltines Poems - Poems about Saltines


Marionette Soup
...Marionette soup comes in a midnight bowl Filled to the brim with mushroom tumbling Under the golden moon dolls cut their strings Nutcrackers on crash diets sink saltines Welcomed to float inside ......

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Categories: saltines, appreciation, food,
Form: Free verse
You Lied To Me: Message Against Religious Fanatism
...You lied to me... You lied to me when you said the church building was the safest place to run to- When you made me believe those grey headed men dwelt in the castle of wisdom too- That following ......

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Categories: saltines, satire,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Knowing My Man
...I will entice him with my meatloaf topping Which means a meatloaf underneath naturally. Next to it will be nestled my other signature dish Scalloped corn with onions, saltines, and mashed potatoes......

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Categories: saltines, food,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Feel Guilty Now
...I met a mouse on his way to heaven. He was pulling a red wagon full of saltine crackers. Are those stolen? I asked him. Zap! A hook came up, grabbed him, and threw him into Hell. I felt guilty wh......

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Categories: saltines, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Irish Limericks
...On March Seventeen on St. Paddy's Day Finbar and Connor drank close to the bay they ate green saltines and caught wild sardines but without any jacks, they couldn't stay they whi......

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Categories: saltines, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Chemo
...chemo waiting room patients eat saltines from a candy dish Published in Bottle Rockets #42 2020 AP: Honorable Mention 2021 Posted on October 25, 2018......

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Categories: saltines, cancer, food, sick, stress,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Hope's Renewal
...Tree-finger enchantments Shimmer pedantic staccato; Violinist plucked Long-tails, blue in snow, Bewitched no longer, frolic. Embrace Poseidon. Whisper labyrinths cool ......

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Categories: saltines, good morning, hope,
Form: Free verse
I Really Do Not Care If the Sun Is a Star and He Does
...I REALLY DON’T CARE IF THE SUN IS A STAR AND HE DOES I want grape juice and sex all the time. All he can think about is spray painting. He looks at me like I am the strange girl down the str......

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Categories: saltines, bereavement, boyfriend, break up,
Form: Carpe Diem
What I Love About the South
...It ain't the pork, it ain't the beans It ain't the mustard on saltines It ain't the redneck social scenes I love about the south It ain't the ice cold sweet southern tea It ain't the way tha......

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Categories: saltines, humor, love,
Form: Free verse
Care Package
...A stomach virus laid me out, My husband down as well And then we were surprised to hear Somebody ring the bell. Two bags delivered to our door With Gatorade and soup, Saltines and even Alka-S......

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Categories: saltines, sick, son,
Form: Rhyme
Winter On the Miles River
...There was something spectacular about a winter, long and hard, on the Miles River. Some days will never be the same. Greying skies, heavy hung with crystal burdens of the wind, and air. Twent......

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Categories: saltines, community, home, nostalgia, winter,
Form: Free verse
Saltines and Codeine
...Almost everyone who came back from Korean War plays Piano now. All around that lounge were cognac glasses being used for tip jars. The customers were either runaways-fugitives or here ......

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Categories: saltines, imaginationred,
Form: Free verse
Coldest Winter Ever
...Let me tell you about the coldest winter ever. I thought the snow would continue to fall forever. A blizzard came through and snowed us in. I caught the flu and was delirious for an entire we......

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Categories: saltines, family, nature, nostalgiawinter, snow,
Form: Free verse
Save Everything
...Mom feeds us gingersnaps and saltines when we get sick to our stomachs, but I never eat any of it. With sweaty palms I nervously stuff the crackers into my pockets, telling myself that I am ......

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Categories: saltines, life, grandmother, sick,
Form: Bio

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