Short Grocery Poems

Short Grocery Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Grocery by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Grocery by length and keyword.


What a Cheek

A grocery shelf in Soup Creek
Has been vacant throughout the week
With Pinkerton care
Now Vegemite's there
Tom's living on bubble & squeak?
Form: Limerick


Grocery Poem V

If you ever need to fall in love

    watch her pick through
red onions in the produce aisle,

               alone,

on a warm July evening.
© C.W. Bryan  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Quick Trip

Quick trip to the grocery store 
not looking for anything more; 
Suddenly a cute cashier! 
Damn! Didn’t fix my hair
before I walked out the door.
Form: Limerick

Grocery Poem Xvi

a young man reaches for green tea
	with lemon
but the shelf is empty and he sighs

it’s the tiny deaths in life
	that prepare you for the big one
© C.W. Bryan  Create an image from this poem.

Grocery Poem Iii

beer is on sale again.
it always is.

brown bottles 

sweat.

their tears largely ignored by the squeaky wheels of a tired mom’s shopping
cart.
© C.W. Bryan  Create an image from this poem.


Premium Member New Normal Interrogation

A question that's no longer needed
   For its answer is largely unheeded

     Where'd you go on vacation? ~
     Grocery shopping & the gas station
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Seventh Heaven

out grocery-shopping

with her mom. she shrieks with joy...

        mom picked up ice-cream



Date written: 10/14/2019
Form: Senryu

Free Fish

there was once a fish in a store
who wanted to be free once more
So he flipped and he flopped
and he rolled and he hopped
until a kind soul opened the door
Form: Limerick

Premium Member My Iguana

My iguana bit my nose off in Muskogee
I'm ashamed I let myself run out of beer
If I'm caught driving sober to the grocery
They might deport my ass right out of here.
Form: Lyric

Grocery Poem Xvii

cracking like a bat
the summer storm
moves in quick
like ants to aisle nine
where chocolate chips 
litter the floor
& the culprit runs away,
scared of the thunder
© C.W. Bryan  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member So Inflated

Grocery prices are now so inflated
I eat dried yams 'till my hunger's abated
Everything cost a mint
My billfold grows lint
Then again, food is so overrated!

10/17/22
Form: Limerick

Grocery Poem Viii

The pure joy of buying
hummus on sale,
watching the green numbers
shrink on the checkout screen -
saving thirty cents

what could be more
important than this?
© C.W. Bryan  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Husband Likes

outside the window male goldfinch eats fennel seeds.... drinks birdbath water think~ husband likes coffeemate we're out, jot on grocery list
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Snowstorm Approaching

cold front moving through heavy snowstorm approaching darkening shadows grocery with empty shelves setting up zig-saw puzzle
written January 14, 2022
Form: Tanka

Grocery Poem Xiii

the sun sets maroon
	around eight o’clock

it mixes elegantly
	with the electric streetlights

in the parking lot.
	I take out my pen

& add cranberry /
	orange juice to the list
© C.W. Bryan  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Desert

Silly goofy 
Could be looking 40 years
If he’s anything like me
Grocery shopping 
Looking for book
we both could get lost
Stick with Anna Mae
Pete the cat
then we both wanna go home

Premium Member Grocery Shopping

Grocery shopping is sure a lot of fun Especially waiting in the car sitting on my bum Oogling girlies go by Showing boobs and thighs Even though my parts sometimes go numb
Form: Limerick

My New Poetry Notebook

This is where
I will work out
my poetry.

It is only for
my poetry.

It is not for
grocery lists.

It is not for
phone numbers

although
in a pinch
it could be.

Words

Everywhere I look I see words.
In Magazines
In newspapers
On Billboards
Words are in books
Words are in grocery stores
Words are in malls and even parks 
Words surround me
Day in and day out

Shopping and Giving

Going to the grocery store?
Look at all the food galore!

Empathetic for all those without
Give to church and maybe charities without a doubt!

Lucky to live in U.S.A.
Have enough money to pay!
Form: Couplet

Premium Member A Type of Isolation

grocery shopping
I see everyone in masks

does anyone smile?

strangers even stranger now -
a type of isolation


July 27, 2020
for Chantelle Anne Cooke's Isolation Philosophy Poetry Contest
Form: Tanka

Grocery Poem Ix

I watched a man in a red and black flannel shirt
walk into the bathroom holding a box of tofu
 and then
the man in the flannel shirt walked out without it.

He is alive and breathing just like me.
© C.W. Bryan  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Grocery Shopping

Grocery shopping is sure a whole lot of fun Especially sitting in the car waiting on my bum Oogling girlies go by Showing boobs and thighs Not too old but sometimes my parts go numb
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Writes 'Em Anywhere

I write 'em in a car, on the back of a horse I write 'em while sitting on the throne of course One place I won't While crossing a moat And definitely not shopping at a grocery store
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Give Me the Whole Bar

i can smell her chocolate and peanut butter as i enter the grocery store
do you smell that?
sweet salty Reeses peanut butter cups
i envision myself unwrapping her aluminum foil
bite sized?
heck no!

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