Short Diners Poems

seagulls scare diners
divebombing restaurant tables
small children giggle...

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Meet the night on fires
On Gem's Resto Grills food farm
That delight diners....

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across the
street

all
time

stops

for
the
instance

passing
by

diners
in
the
night...

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As bakers cook, diners eat food. Good help is jumbled. Kicking lovers make no omen.
People quarrel; reactions soar through upper vented windows. Explanations yield. Zoom!...

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Crustacean crowds gather around the reef, for a special reunion.

Delicacies abound as the coral dines, along with them.

Dancing anemone, are entertainment for the diners....

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Have you frequented a restaurant close to home
Noticed how many diners are on their phones
An epidemic I'd say
Indigestion is at play
All through the restaurant you can hear people moan...

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the diners are silent,

and close before dusk,

solitary kettles boil,

in quiet homes glowing in the night,

and unringing phones.

how are you today?

is all we ever say,

and one day we’ll all get together...

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DACOITY

Disarm dirty bastards

Disown disparity

Disempower Wall Street

Disavow the dictate

Demi God of money

Dollars are the diners

Disparaging the poor


29th August Pleiades D

Syllables checked 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 = 42...

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Night time moonlit magic, 
all-night conversations
in diners intense 

uninhibited gaily
sharing secret 
stories

listening as
only complete
strangers can
listen.

Unable to face
each other
the morning after

pretending not
to remember …...

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Slide-out Coke machines
Superman/Batman comics
10 cent hot dogs
AM radio
Black & white TV
Rabbit-ear antennae
Bubblegum baseball cards
Tinny speakers at drive-in
Drive-in diners
Vacation bible school
Barefoot summers
Homemade playgrounds
A quarter made you rich......

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Tan skin and smile lines.
Breakfast diners and strong coffee.
Soft breeze and salt-encrusted waves.
Lowered windows and strange songs.
Dripping ice cream and picnic tables.
Inside jokes and evening storms.
Good books and toes in sand.
All these things go hand in hand....

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STORM AT SEA

windswept

crashing dark waves

guise of lids closed ~ dark shades

rain shatters reflective pool, glass

pupils

~

shark eyes

silver and cold

fin, watches ship cruise by

diners enter

famished

5/8/2017
Cinquin Form...

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At a café last night, was served a human-sized chicken for sure
Needed one plate for the chicken and for the veggies, needed one plate more
Chef said it came from Asia Major
Putting it in the pot took much labor
Needed the help two diners, one of who passed out on the floor...

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I made a faux pas – c’est la vie!
And asked for butter on my bread,
The other diners stared at me.
I made a faux pas – c’est la vie!
And then I wanted Earl Grey tea…
‘Il est Anglais,’ the waiter said.
I made a faux pas – c’est la vie!
And asked for butter on my bread.

For Cyndi’s Un, Deux, Trios contest...

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Out conversations are notorious.
Our loud laughter is uproarious.
Our explosions of mirth are furious. 
Other diners smile. Some look curious.

This what it is like with a childhood friend.
Pure happiness does not readily end.
When we are together, all dour descends.
We are flexible and find, as lovely knee bends....

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we were laughing on the street.The cars kept coming and quite conversations passed us 
by.The diners were all closing and the bars were just setting up.They gave us a dirty 
look but i didnt know because i was content.My thoughts were with you.And in the dusk 
and cool nauatical breeze,i breathed you in.Life.Disaster.Hope and 
hopelesness....

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Nostalgia draped the counters and walls
The smell of bacon sizzled in the air.
Diners in baseball caps and ponytails
noisily chattered there.

The grill popped
to the teakettle’s screams
To harmonize with the babies cries
sitting on their Daddies knees.

Time drizzled by on the Chevy Belair clock
like the syrup on my Johnny cakes
while the waitress kept a pouring coffee
to the bikers, their cravings to abate....

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hummingbirds hover,
hearts a-flutter, drink nectar
delightful diners


February 26, 2018, entered in Deborah Beachboard's Haiku Contest

entered in Mick Talbot's Haiku Contest March 8 2018

July 24, 2018, entered in the Tania Kitchins Haiku contest

June 17, 2020, entered in Chantelle Anne Cooke's Best Haiku Ever contest


June18, 2021
entered in the Bite-Size poetry contest no. 8
sponsored by Line Gauthier...

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I always expect to hear singing from the balconies
there is only the chatter of other enthusiastic diners
in the thin alley where we consume outside in summer
Scars, my favorite restaurant with a welcoming owner

we are greeted with plates of warm steaming appetizers
crisp table cloths are white linen, the silverware heavy
It is not inexpensive, but we would gladly pay more
for the ambiance, delicious food and this gorgeous alley....

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Eating alone puts me in 

a self-conscious mood,

every bite I take every spill I make,

feeling hundreds of eyes staring 

at my attempts to appear as if 

my unaccompanied dining event 

is a once-in-a-while circumstance,

reading the newspaper provides a 

fortress for lonely feelings,

occasionally I peek from behind 

the printed wall and watch other diners 

who share intimate glances,

laughter and coupleness....

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Moonlight Come Dance With Me
There's no polyester in the trees
Nothing but mucous membrane
What's writing what's wrong
Pattern of the ole coal miners
Roughing it eating leftovers in diners
A brute abusive husband placed in marmalade
This is how bad men behave
Sun bright burning the heavens
Loaf of bread singles only seven
Nothing left on my dinner plate
Dine at my request

03/08/14
Written by James Edward Lee Sr
from anthology "Up Rising"...

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'THERE'S A SHARK IN MY SOUP!'
Not an eyebrow was raised, 
Not a shudder nor blood-curdling scream.
For in Peking you see, it's a delicacy
To consume shark fin soup it would seem.

But when diners looked round,
With his head in a bowl
 Was renowned Casanova - Wang Yong.
And his date said : 'You cheat,! You're a shark on the beat!
So it's in that there bowl you belong!


29/12/18



'Shark in my soup' contest : sponsored by Anthony Slausin...

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There was a hen from Delaware
Who purchased blue feathers to wear
She harboured a mania
To see Pennsylvania…
One state to another compare.

She heard there were Phillies at play
And diners where food was buffet
She found no utopia
Fell victim to phobia 
Whenever she drank Chardonnay.


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Delaware is nicknamed "Blue Hen State"

Contest: State Limerick 
Sponsor: Kevin Shaw
© 24th July 2019...

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Classes on tranny and queer diversity
    universities reek of perversity

  Discrimination abounds all around
    save if your skin's black or brown

  Tuition hikes obscene, naked robbery
    flaunt luxury dorms and diners, effete snobbery

  Not a smidgen on learning or teaching in glittering reports
    just facilities upgrades, data analytics in sports

  Grade inflation boosts illiteracy ever higher
    agree or disagree ~ at least I'm no liar...

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Slide-out Coke machines
Bubble gum baseball cards
Superman/Batman comics
Full service gas stations
25 cents a gallon
Dial phones
AM radio
Fats Domino
Black & white TV
Rabbit-ear antennae
Three channels
I Love Lucy
Drive-in movies
Double dating
Drive-in diners
10 cent hot dogs
Saddle Oxfords
Penny Loafers
Vacation bible school
Homemade playgrounds
Barefoot summers
A dollar was a fortune...

No cable
No Internet
No cell phones
No problem......

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