Short Cupboards Poems

Bills due date nearing
Bare cupboards hungry children
Six months unemployed...

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No one home in this house the cupboards are bare
No carpets to walk upon
No curtains to pull
No laughter no tears, Just memories of happier years....

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There was once a lady called Mable
Whose knickers were up to her navel
Her cupboards were bare
There was no underwear
So she nicked them from where she was able...

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I beg of the beggars
Lie to the liars
Warm myself by the icy fire
And contemplate a God
I search for food in empty cupboards
Borrow from the debtors 
I sit on an empty stage
And only I alone applaud...

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Empty things-

Empty rooms-filled with things-
Empty vases-empty jars
Empty seats-
Cupboards that are bare-

Corridors-in my mind-
Long and narrow-alone I stare-
Vacant land -
You once – were there!  

17/11/92...

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The kitchen's disinfected, the worktops squeaky clean,
The laundry's in the wardrobe and nothing's left in the machine.
The crockery is washed and dry, it's stacked in cupboards, looking neat.
There's just one nagging problem, I've got nothing left to eat!...

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~Man found having tea party with Kat again
Viral photo of cat has been photoshopped 
Mice breaking in kitchen cupboards nibbling in boxes of tea bags 
Cat catches train with man catnip and tuna on the menu~


12/24/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020...

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We are both clairaudient
We can hear slamming of doors
or kitchen cupboards when no one is visually there.

We are also both clairsentient
Some would call us empaths.
We pick up on feelings, which is why going to a mall is awful

We know without knowing how we know...

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Violence is an anger-loaded wagon
Inventing new man as a rodent
Often the violent acts like a beast
Lost victim’s dignity rests in garbage bin
Ego swells and explodes as bomb
Normal reason locked in cupboards
Conquest and destruction a game
Evacuation of humanity is heroism...

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Raising a barrier with an expression of a trunk barrel is quite astonishing really. Whilst holding a booking breaming fish at a straightforward angle. In sunshine or at schools in closeted cupboards eating a lot of cakes then. Dance with ninety six thousand frogs. Hahahaha and a few long pies. Hahahaha xx longitudinal xxx...

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Deprivation is a great teacher
Empty cupboards and growing weeds

Cause the soul to stir
To disdain idle chitchat and merriment

Lessons learned transform the spirit from sand to granite
Conversely, dissipation and luxury turn lives to shards

Always getting one's way leads to the house of destitution
Too much milk and no meat...

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that was worrying
but not surprising
for 
who can 
really tell who might leave
what in drawers
when 
we move 
home do we some
times not find strange objects
lurking 

we moved
to a 
new home
on saturday night
we locked the front door
my 
wife
then asked me to check the cupboards
upstairs
"there might
be someone in one"...

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God always opens a window when he shuts a door.
He will take care of you like the times he did before.
You lost your job but God will see to it that another one comes along.
Have faith in the Lord and he'll never steer you wrong.
Soon you'll be able to fill your cupboards that are nearly bare.
Please don't feel forsaken, God will always be there....

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I don't get the expression
There's cats everywhere
That was the only dumb cat
To which the world compares

Mine are in the cupboards
Closets they can perch
Diving under my sheets
Curiousity is what makes them search

Unwrapping to toilet paper
Hockey with anything on the floor
How come they're still living
I'm using that expression no more...

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i’m scared.
scared of odd little things:
glass doors,
windows,
leading to the outside world.
paranoia of unexpected guests,
curled under cupboards, and strangers stabbing on sidewalks.
i’m alone in my dark fantasies.

and yet, i’m unafraid.
i crave the reckless life, cheating, binging on drugs and sex and life.
the life where i’m the unknown girl that everyone knows....

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Train whistle
I think of Dad. He loved them so
Coyote comes to visit almost to my front porch
That’s Daddy too

Smell of smoke.
My father-in-law Dwight is here.
Cupboards slamming now
With no person in the kitchen, my mother-in-law, Helen.

I await my mother’s presence
Wondering how she will make herself known
She has not been gone long
Maybe still resting...

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No color,
no warmth from the cold weather,
no charisma,
no freshness,
no love just loneliness,
no cover from the rain,
no drain for the tub,
no food in the cupboards,
no water to drink,
no end to the war,
no cooler for the heat,
no ice to make water colder,
no rivers flowing,
no flowers growing.

All is bleak,
all is dark and crawling. 

Bleak that's all....

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Junk food
                          Sweet and salty
                         No nutrition at all
           Please just give me an M and M sandwich
           Topped with potato chips to give it crunch
               Fill my cupboards with Mounds bars,
                     Bring on the unhealthy
                      Hot chips, oh, yes!
                               Junk food...

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Selling memories, possessions at the yard sale
Just junk the buyer says, I will take it off your hand
Hard times have hit, yes we need a break
Kindness, charity impress apon the inner voice
Let it go, someone else needs it more.

She goes inside to empty cupboards and cries.
No supper tonight, no breakfast tomorrow...

Vultures circle to take advantage, will the house be gone?...

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Lotion cream balm an ointments 
reminds us of who we really are  
accessories fitment's an garments
never need lavish nor spar
classic cupboards organized 
maintain visual distain
to relax an feel stabilized 
everything is perfectly attain
or maybe not quite a start
funny how time seems to fly 
then wonder how far
th' reason of existence apply
like driving all night 
without an aim...

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I am flat broke
Despair I can’t cloak
There is no dope
For which to cope
The cupboards are bare
Another miserly fare
Truck is in a heap
Nighttime is to weep
Daily struggle for pay
Uncertainty holds sway
Love from my girl
Amid all the swirl
Faith I will do right
Pressure weighs heavy at night
Poor am I of money
So God gave to me
An angel He didn’t need
My baby, my angel, my creed...

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I look forward to days,
That I'm free to shed my cheerful facade,
Free to wallow in self pity and gloom.
Days that the darkness that has been shut in my dark cupboards are free to roam,
Serenading me with their exotic tune of despair and self loathing,
Where I'm free to revel in my darkest hours.
A place where no warmth of love and comforting words can reach me,
I long for those days, twisted as it sounds....

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Wiley Wee Willy Mousey walked through the house
Careful to not wake another human or mouse
Tiptoeing beyond the cupboards to climb in the sink.
Where waited his girlfriend, Miss Curly Mouse Pink.

I’ve made a Jacuzzi, there are bubbles, she said.
Do not drink too many, or you will wind up kind of dead.
Wee Willy Mousey dove in but accidentally hit hard his head.
So Miss Curly Mouse Pink called up her other boyfriend Rat Fred....

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You could fix up my shattered windows
Patch up the holes in the walls
Find a way to make the incessant creaking
Of the floorboards–hush
Make the faucets stop their aching
Drip…drip…drip…
New shingles 
New doors
New cupboards and cabinets 
Make my old bones feel new again–
What I really want
Is to be set ablaze
Ashes to ashes
All my flaws and failures 
Gone with the strike of a match
Then and only then–
Pick up your hammer...

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In her cupboards
are dried herbs,
spices and condiments.
She keeps the kitchen clean,
the pantry clean
but no food except for cat food,
cans and cans of cat food,
wet cat meats in stacked tins.
Only the best, good quality cuisine
fit for her and her cats.
The cats will not consume
the food if spiced or seasoned.
Over the years
her tastes have changed
now she takes no spices,
but her whiskers tingle
at the thought of catnip....

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