Set The Table Poems - Poems about Set The Table

...I set the table; I did not. The pourer did. The poor did not. The seats are cold; merlot is warm. The pourer asks; there are replies, sips, guzzles, sighs, manners. I am satisfied as each one’s ......

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...shadows ”When you are not fed love on a silver spoon, you learn to lick it off knives.” —Lauren Eden, The Lioness Awakens i was raised by the dark— mother taught me to swallow the unsaid......

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...Written By: D. Collins 1/8/25 If you should somehow enter Heaven before me. Put in a good word of what I turned out to be. Al......

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...Set the table with festive cheer for all our loved ones no longer here Set them a plate and pour them a Sherry They would want us to celebrate, to be festive and merry Don’t wallow in sorro......

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...I wanted so badly to know every darkened piece of coal beneath your sooted mantle See for myself how every well lit pane Became a sunlit stage Where the glittered dust danced so graceful How ......

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...23 The Lord is well peppered; I shall add salt, 2 He laid out the green peppers; and poured the chili sauce, 3 all into my bowl; that's filled generously with cut steak. 4 In the taste test, my......

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...a leisurely spring day with a friendly southernly wind from the west I hang from an oak tree nearly hitting my round chin on my flat chest from homes of unsuspecting neighbors, I hear dainty titte......

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...If you enter through The rusty back gate Messily labeled 105 and Walk thirty steps to your right, You will come across A beaten path Overgrown with forgotten weeds And the remnant leaves of a......

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...When the sun rises and spreads its sticky yellow syrup across green marzipan fields I rub the bees from the fragrant holyhock bells and sniff the nectar. I pull each cup to drink the breakf......

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...She married at the age of 19 For over 70 years worked for husband. set the table, took care of children With parents-in-law their distant relatives and neighbours Cared for them Losing job ......

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...You confused the situation by alarming the guests saying close but no cigar You always gave quaint encouragement by virtue of your factuals We sweetly sang out of tune to deflect the despond......

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...Relish every bite of life, Sprinkled with a little salt. Spice it with a dash of pepper, Bake in oven without fault. Smell the aroma in the air, Set your table 'neath the sun. Share the feast......

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...Everyone helped clean up after dinner. Dad, Mom, brother and me. Mom created the casserole. Daddy baked the pumpkin pie. I set the table. Brother washed the floor. We all worked together. In......

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...scattered pieces of pretty teacups - floral, dotted, antiques. they’re broken, like jars of clay, and the beauties are you and me. we find ourselves, abused and ugly, but God’s a......

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...it is a sad, sad tale indeed it is father passed when i was but a babe left with mother, sisters, dog, rabbits there were three parakeets and they all shared a commonality they were female, stil......

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