Short Fortune Cookie Poems

imprints of a rose
still on yesterday's wine glass
her ruby red lips...

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sterile dough kneaded
crisped dreams coated with sugar
manufactured hope...

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I'm breaking it open to take a lookee.
What does it say inside my fortune cookie?...

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I ate a fortune cookie with the paper in it 
I am pretty sure that the fortune 
will come through...

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I know someone who jots down short poetry.
Now she puts what she writes inside a fortune cookie.
...

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Springtime’s saucy sweet;
makes me want egg rolls,
fried rice with veggies, 
curlicue sprouts;
with fried shrimp for dipp’in.
Of course,  with smiling fortune cookie! 


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I'm told this poetry gig's a farce



          ("You can't pull money out of your ars!)



So, thanks for giving my poems a lookey ...



          But I'm off to write ... a fortune cookie!...

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Expectations are like dolphins
Singing gleefully through the waves.
Life's lottery calls your number
As you wait there by the bay.
Purple sunset's majesty
Speaks of a celebration soon to come.
Believing's half the battle
When the paper says you've won....

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Don't rip your heart open too deep
(All they'll see are the valves and the veins)
Don't puke out your guts in one heap
(All they'll smell is the rotten Chow Mein)

Footnote: I decided to enter this as my worst poem because it really stinks and makes me want to throw up......

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Bring some more pain, I really quite like it 
The driver supreme of my own demise 
A bottle of wine, a park bench to sit 

Like a fortune cookie I tell no lies 
Poison attacks me from behind my eyes. 

Allow the toxins to control my doubt
My mind cries for mercy, 'stop' it does shout....

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One day as I stopped for tea
A fotune cookie said to me,
"It matters not what road we take
But rather what we become on the journey."

Try as I may it will not rhyme
So I guess I'll just go on this time.
For the journey I chose to take
Matters not for rhyme sake.

              Cile Beer...

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Just a little note to say
We had Chinese for a day
I opened a Fortune Cookie 
Just for Princess the rookie

It said the worst part of your life is behind you.....

Today I opened another for her..

Words spoken in kindness brings friendship...

I opened one for me:

Most people go through the school of hard knocks
And immediately enroll once again......

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Because she likes mystery and wants to imagine her own story before the world 
rudely interrupts

And as the cookie crumbles the world rumbles its forceful future among her frail dreams

So she leaves everything as is so her dreams are able to live

The mind is only as strong as the cracks from time

p.s. so crack the cookie to see your fortune…...

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chinese clever forever
damn this endeavor of whatever
a cookie snap with a hopeful treasure
a fortune of a prospering measure

"Damn Clever These Chinese"..........

Damn slam this clever cookie gram
nothing ever came of it !
I'm going back for one more round
a drink , a bite to eat and one more fortune cookie man !

"Damn Clever These Chinese".............

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That Wasn’t Chicken

By Elton Camp

Most any unusual meat you can name
“It tastes like chicken,” is the claim

Of both rattlesnake and rabbit too
Eaters have told me that is true

But when I ate in the mall at the Chinese café
“That wasn’t chicken,” fortune cookie did say

I guess surely not, but I still wonder somehow
If it came from one that once said, “Meow.”...

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Quick as Piranha


Tucked in a booth in back,
the last customer of the day 
cracks a fortune cookie,

sips Oolong as Mr. Hong
locks up. It’s time for his supper.  
Two tall sons bear

from the kitchen dishes
his wife won’t allow 
on the menu. 

Platters of meat
red, green, brown 
huddle and steam 

in the middle of the table.
When the Hongs
drop in their seats

chopsticks fly 
like beaks. So many bright teeth, 
quick as piranha.


Donal Mahoney...

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Shrimp in Lobster Sauce


Tucked in a booth in back,
the last customer of the day 
cracks a fortune cookie,

sips Oolong as Mr. Hong
locks up. It’s time for his supper.  
Two tall sons bear

from the kitchen dishes
his wife won’t allow 
on the menu. 

Platters of meat
red, green, brown 
huddle and steam 

in the middle of the table.
When the Hongs
drop in their seats

chopsticks fly 
like beaks. So many bright teeth, 
quick as piranha.


Donal Mahoney...

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Life is a game
That wears all blame


Better be still
That noisy fill


Be true to you
In all you do


Loiter with joy
Cast play and ploy


Look to this day
To work new pray


Here time and space
Hide your true grace


To know the way
Go beyond stay


Look and listen
Grace funds wisdom


Wind-blown message:
Discern passage


Fortune cookie:
Trust no bookie!


Linger with grace
Light up your face


Leon Enriquez
24 July 2014
Singapore...

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Come judgment day 
y'all niggaz tryna run away 
Hidin' behind the clouds 
from niggaz with much clout 
But, as they say: 
when the going gets tough, 
the tough get bombed. 
Stuffin' the leafy rod 
with a sticky green wad. 
A concoction that burns  
and blows sweeter than 
fine Eastern incense 
Open a fortune cookie, 
what's it say: 
I gotta hit dat. 
And to be honest, I think 
it's just what you needed. 
A reality check to the forehead 
to stop the mental bleeding....

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1. Writing poetry in my boxers.

2. Trying to match the cracks on my iphone with the scars on my body.

3. Picking out a Disney movie to watch. Alice in Wonderland it is.

4. About to take a shower by candle light, and just listen to the movie and recollect the scenes I can remember.

5. Think.

6. Think a lot.

7. Make my Christmas list.

8. Pull out the Fortune Cookie paper I got recently.

9. Apply the message from the cookie to my Christmas list.

10. It reads, “Help love to keep living”...

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