Short Buffets Poems

poetry’s starved -
                after days of bountiful buffets and open bar...

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sails full wind buffets my face
our sailboat cuts through the waves
tiller guides spinnaker flies
we go with the wind...

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Always hot plates.
Always refilling clean slates.
Always lots of food.
Always yummiest dishes.
Always the best of buffets...

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“All-You-Can-Eat” buffets can possibly kill
We gorge ourselves until we are stuffed to the gills
As much as we can eat
Same price whatta treat
It's difficult to resist the temptation of the food mill...

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When Little Miss Muffet 
first visited buffets,
she’d choose simple entrees,
cottage cheese

Until one day in line
a grand gourmand spied her.
He advised some cider
and egg foo young.

Now I'm the frightened one;
ev'ry night of the week
new gourmet food they seek.
They're off the grid. 

Heard they ran away to 
far-off Cambodia
where fried tarantula
are tasty treats.

...

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Life's Menu

The world is a feast 
hosting many beasts
lodging its beings
In a palace of bliss 
Serving mystery meals
with knives and forks
tending to fangs and claws 
Ripping through life’s menu
Feeding on scorn
Feeding on hate
Feeding on the love of men
Lavishly Catering out despairs 
Stylishly rummaging
through the hopes 
Spreading buffets
of selected illusions 
spiced with chaos  
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26/11 not just a calendar date
166 got killed, over 300 wounded.

Gun shots rattled pub pillar
Guzzlers gulped fear in lieu of beer

Patrons served bullets
While they were out for 5 star buffets

Commuters shocked to see firing of AK 47
While they waited for train at railway station

Hospital lay under terrorist scary seize 
Terrorists not doctors took rounds of wards

26/11 since 2008
Is a Terror date ...

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© Hitendra Mehta...

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