Short Fortune Cookie Poems
Short Fortune Cookie Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Fortune Cookie by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Fortune Cookie by length and keyword.
The stars were perfectly aligned.
She felt all doors had swung open.
Finally the world was hers.
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2026
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!
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!
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.
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...
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.
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
Form:
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...
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…
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.”
I'm Basing This On
A Fortune Cookie:
'Finding Fault'
Has Little
Reward.
Is That A
Poem Yet?
Let It...
Go Three Ways...
1. Bait.
2. Now It Is.
3. Finding Something Beautiful
3b. In Everything Is
3c. Absolutely Insane.
It's Sure Hard Not To
Though, Sometimes...
I Mean: If You Have To
Explain It: It's Not Really
Magic?
-Gray Squirrel
12-07-2025
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
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
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
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.
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”