Short Lunchtime Poems

Something hard to come by- lunchtime crowd is loud...

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As they swimming in juice 
taste of soy on my noodles 
easy lunchtime meal...

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He's my friend from Prague
Who I play chess with every 
lunchtime,
He's my Czech mate....

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Piggery
Diggery
Hungry,
I stuffed
I chewed,
I swallowed 
Lunchtime sweets
Floury treats 
Icing sweetmeats,
Burp
Sturp
Stop
The
Cup
Cakes...

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She went for the bowl in the middle
Which sorted today’s lunchtime riddle
Then she rested her head
In a medium bed
Till three hungry bears made her tiddle...

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Hot cheese pizza
four slices, mmm.
Square table at
Round Table.
Diet Pepsi
bendy straw
sports channel on wall TV
palm trees outside
must be Florida
oh wait, no:
California....

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Melting butter out of the fridge
For lunchtime sandwiches
And I'm recalling Saturday tea
And smokey yellow hadock
Pulled from a hot grill,
With butter soon soothing.
Why I'm remembering this
I don't really know
As I haven't felt flakes for years....

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I once had a boss called Mister Reviere
Each lunchtime for ages he'd disappear
What he was found wearing
Kept everyone staring
Oh my, the padlock was stuck by his ear







Contest : Single Limerick Contest: Horrible Bosses (and more) 
Unplaced...

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Numbers on 
White board…names written hori-
zontally

Students ask
To go pee…right when class starts – 
THAT’S just wrong…

Bathroom line
Of students who have bladder
Problems – WOW!

People are
Not using lunchtime to do 
Their business 

No one knows
When to do their duties – SER-
IOUSLY?...

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You're on this bus and safe inside
But please consider those who ride
Or walk or cycle, those on horse back
(Before you eat your lunchtime snack)
And wave and cheer and smile, don't stare..
It's nice for them to know we care x

Sponsor: Miranda Hawley
Contest Name: From Dispatch to Bus Drivers...

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MONDAY



Climbing the steep hill of Monday
Is starting to pall,
And the warm crest of Wednesday lunchtime
Is forever just two steps out of reach.
The rocks and slips of the rising 
Cut into my soul and weary me: 
Before I even set my best foot forward,
Or get my first wind, I'm starting to  fall....

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Hungry and cold as lunchtime came at last
with snatched breakfast a long gone blur,
my urge for food was taste and warmth,
but known; not new, no fads, no frills.

Not sure of how to proceed
I met by chance a well known friend,
a tattie, just baked and filled with mince
so simple meal enjoyed, i'm cheered....

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Pills for that, pills for this,
Stated dose you mustn't miss.
One at breakfast, one at night,
two at lunchtime keep you right,
Stomach pills and headache pills
keep at bay your aches and ills
Yellow ones and pink ones too,
some are purple, some are blue,
each has got their job to do
then you go and catch the 'flu!!...

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What was better than pumpkin
pie stuffed in my eye? Nothing
more than a burger and a fry..
That's why I wonder why? 
If pancakes are great at 
breakfest time? A sandwich
is great at lunchtime? 
A spaghetti a great meal at 
dinner time? But what was 
better than just old fashion
ham on rye? Nothing more
than a burger and a fry..

Lunchtime Poetry by Kim Robin Edwards
Copyright 2010,2014..All rights reserved....

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multi-cultural mecca
Farmers' Market at the United Nations Plaza,
San Francisco

water fountain sculpture
misting through the
jazz audience at lunchtime, 
during the weekday summer concert series

poetry gives me new eyes
situated right in front of my 
heart ~ sigh

A wiley seagull bathing
under a pressure close to a full
blast, water sculpture mist curls my hair

And I forget the littered alley I walked through
a second ago...

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Those small drug holders!
They have numbers on them.
They reminded you when to take four pills:
one at breakfast time,
one at lunchtime,
one at dinnertime,
one when it's the hour for bed.

Those small drug holders!
Are those numbers fading?
They try to remind you what the time is,
when to have some breakfast,
when to eat your lunch,
when to consume some dinner,
when the hour for bed has arrived.

(11 Dec 2023)
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She is night star beautiful
strawberry blond curls
illuminating royal cheekbones
hazel (eye)d
conversationalist supreme
bikini fit
the crown jewel on Mr. Deans 
list

Lunchtime, she chose her seat carefully
her cherub face bathed in half shadow
in a strange three-quarter pose
like a nude model sitting for a con 
artist
 
Forever single
the pretty girl with the glass eye 
was lonelier than a night star...
i suppose...

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Now of New Age, I am a fan,
I communed with my healing man,
I relaxed, breathed, because I can,
Yes! I communed with my soul's shaman,
He appeared, by my psychic side,
At last, I met my inner guide,
But, you see, it was lunchtime,
Hunger pains panged inside,
Who is this messenger guide?
I asked, yearning deep, besides,
Yes! I did commune with my inner shaman,
Unfortunately, his name is Manga!
Let's do lunch, 
End of hunch!...

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Oh, morning I greet you! hey
Hello… and how do you do?
The sky is so bright and blue
I have to go…there is so much to do today

Good day… oh afternoon! wow!
The sun is shining so soon
The sparrows have cause to croon
It’s lunchtime, i need my sauce and spoon now

It’s nice you’re here oh night! so cool
Why do you always save the sunlight?
I love to listen to tales by moonlight
Oh, it’s bedtime so, light out... some seldom fool...

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TALK AMONGST STONES

if we hadn’t had
that extra drink
at lunchtime
our headspace chefs
would only scream
twice:
(f) off my menu
go talk of your 
stones

so we do…

build temples
ancient tabloids 
of
triple distilled
distracted 
abstract  
metaphors
as is prone
word for word
talk amongst

S  
  T
    O
       N
            E
               S


© Kim van Breda—29 October 2015 
(with Mal Campbell)...

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Very deep emotional and inspiring verse:

He was born from a grass thatched house in a remote village. His friends used to laugh him that he will be a failure in life. At lunchtime he had lack of food and wore a tattered school uniform. One day,he was chased out of school because he had no school fees. But, today he is taking flights all over the world and helping millions out of poverty shackles.

Inspired by philanthropist
Poetry Chipepo Lwele
16/02/2023...

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Coming home, 
There's one thing I always look forward to.
Waking up,
There's one thing I always look forward to.
At lunchtime,
There's one thing I always look forward to.

During long car trips, stuffy and droll,
The thought of one thing keeps me going. 
In exams, long and stress filled,
The thought of one thing keeps me going.
When it's stormy and cold outside,
The thought of one thing keeps me going. 

And that would be,
Plain and simple,
A cup of tea....

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The man sat in his wheelchair;
His aide was on the phone,
Behavior to which aides and sitters
Oftentimes are prone.

“You’re hungry?” She hung up and said;
The question I’d not heard.
“But you had lunch!” and yet
His urge for food was undeterred.

“Remember? At the Mansion?
Chicken pot pie was your meal,
With lentil soup, then ice cream.”
(Likely as a mid-day deal.)

It wasn’t even 2 o’clock
Yet still, they headed back,
Abandoning the river
For an after-lunchtime snack....

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