Short Napkins Poems

Plastic ware is fine
Favorite restaurant to dine
 Hickory smoked swine...

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Linen napkins stack
Frosted squares make a tableau
That denote Christmas...

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the tablecloth stained -
old couple had gravy on
their chins, no napkins
...

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Her napkins were set in a row
Each designed to go with the flow
But one bloody spot
Could wipe out the lot
As to why - you don't need to know!...

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Cracks in well-formed plans
Rain on neatly arranged napkins
 
We were never in control
Always in your hands
Wrap your fingers tightly now
Stop the falling...

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Gloves are to hands
what shoes are to feet,
and napkins to mouths,
what tissue is to bottoms.
This last you may not like
as a comparison, but it is
after all a fitting anal-ogy....

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Drink a little wine
Make merry 
Dinner wrappings
Accented with favorite 
Napkins
Flute glasses
Topics 
True matter
Knife and fork 
Juster
Thanks for the invite
Excepted with Lavender...

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Need paper day and night,
nervous if out of sight,
normally you stock up,
not today out of luck,
nature makes frantic call,
no time to sit and bawl,
napkins is next of kin.




4-30-17...

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I open their ketchup pouches.
I open their milks.
I open their napkins
Until the mama girls make themselves known.
Then they do all the opening for the tables.
Amazing their kindergarten classmates....

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The empty pizza pan
Sitting on the counter
Dennis sitting across from me
An empty plate with napkins
Strewn Across the table
The microwave clock ticking away
All but forgotten
What a great place to live!...

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you take a second look
and laugh at me
as ice cream drips from sunburnt face
and there are no napkins
i come closer to you
kissing you on your cheek
leaving chocolate ripples
and wavey kiss marks as souveniers

august 5,2012...

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Vern
Is
One of
My favored
Season of the year
But the sneezing and itching from
The pollen, mold and weed that blow in the atmosphere 
Cause to take antihistaminic and use a box of facial napkins in a day










3-18-2016...

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The napkins were the first to know
a party pooper breached the guard
an uninvited wind did blow
as rain, once distant, now fell hard
on smokeless candles, slightly charred.

©2/12/2022

Quintain (English) Poetry Contest
Sponsor – Emile Pinet...

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I am a spastic dancer
exuberant with giant moves, arms and legs flailing
mirth and joy spin through my pores as I tamp and stamp
I am the utmost party animal 
My grandchildren love it
Their mothers hide behind prissy cloth napkins
Pretending I did not birth them...

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sweaty palms,
lead to a brisk handshake.
averted eyes.
awkwardness.
the epitome of adolesence.
young boys and girls pretending to be grown up.
masquerading in ties and lipstick.
leaving numbers on napkins,
half-smiles,
and shared taxis.
it starts with a handshake.
quick
brisk
sweaty.
false.
like everything to come....

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Why does everything have to smell like dung?!?

Molecules wafting up my nose
Forgotten meals
and friends
and good times

Isn't it bad enough that the Puccini disk skips
during my favorite song,

or that I have to use gas station napkins
for toilet paper?

scrape off mold from the block of cheese?



Maybe I just stepped in it....

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VISITING GRANDMA

At grandma’s house I am a queen
No luckier girl you’ve ever seen
I eat from willow plates so blue
And drink a coke or maybe two
She makes me tuna on nice bread
We sit together, napkins spread
She tells me stories, picks me flowers
These are my best and sweetest hours
I love her more than sun or moon
If I could sing-- she’d be my tune...

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The place settings are put on the table
Black spider candelabra’s with cobwebs
With orange pumpkin napkins that’s able
To provide cleaning of all evil webs
There’s a dark skull vase that tells a fable
All these objects are good as the celebs
Ghost and specter puppets sit on a tray
Bringing Halloween forward to this day

Russell Sivey...

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Limousine open top
Stars peeking through
Full moon
Holding hands

Tall white hat cuisine
Candles lit table set
Glasses filled with wine
Cloth napkins embroidered 

Diamond eyes golden hair
Long sexy dress sliced
Lips like red rubies 
Tantalizing and wanting

Heart shaped bed red petals 
Clothes off
X-X-X
Breakfast in bed

Happy Valentines...

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The hamburger's only a craving I had
to money I spent on flavour they add.
A bun 'top a pickle and a taste of dill, 
then napkins and a tray with receipt to thrill.
From service through a window with a light grey-blue
to seating at a table meant for four will do.
A vision of a burger being chomped in air
is just another feeling that your gut won't share....

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eating humble pie
adding mud and parasites
sprinkling lots of drizzle and grey cloud matter
including many pinches of regret
indulging on the unfortunate bitterness of my modern reality
wasting napkins and paper towels unnecessarily 
wishing for the refreshing flavors of you
knowing that losing you is poison to the life of my soul
letting the monsters win the battle...

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Life as I now know it 
is formulated, maintained, and sung,
changed up and changed down
by tiny scribbles on pieces of napkins,
or grocery store receipts.

Words that rhyme, inspire, aspire, and take me
into myself, and back out again, twirling me greatly,
or sending me to the outer planet of my mind

not only rule my life,
but have become my life
as I now know it....

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the kitchen's hot
we do our stepping
without thinking
minds on the work
minds on the mouths to feed
we weave
in around each other
yet another marriage dance
another intimate arrangement

still light
hands working fast
passing pots and oil
passing covers and spoons
eyebrow raised
all done
sweet garlic floats above us
butter on the table
white napkins in your hands
serve...

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My baby took me on a hot date to a greasy spoon
"Oh, darling! I'm about to swoon!"
He ordered up a basket of 50 chicken wings 
Then our server gave us some napkins and things
The chicken came doused to the core
Could we desire anything more?
Oh, XXX HAUT--buffalo sauce!
we assured that not one went to loss
The fiery taste made my eyes turn to glass
you should've seen what it did to my-
mouth...

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Miss Gladys befriended me at church
Invited me to her house for rose tea
Her table was exquisitely set with lace and doilies
Embroidered napkins, and beautiful flowers
She put out the most gorgeous peacock tea cups
I had no idea how to sip between peacock’s head and tail.
Miss Gladys laughed at my consternation 
Brought out her every day cups with a tray of cookies
I was immensely relieved...

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