Short Tab Poems

words like: be, at, bat,
ate, eat, able, tale, tab, late
nine out of table...

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The Gilas coach Tab Baldwin 
Employed his system within 
The team in order to win....

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Kisi ko marwana ho to aisay marwao us ko pata hi na chalay
Jab taLak pata chalay tab tak kaam tamam ho chuka ho......

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There was a pizza boy named Ross
Who’s addicted to the sauce

He went to rehab
With quite the big tab

But relapsed and ran to his boss!...

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Daunting Decision
Cigar girl…wench…Obama...
What role shall I play?

Halloween's Hall Pass
Excuse to dress like a tramp
To win a bar tab...

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run & hide hands a
flailing i lost my tail
while it was hailing
hellfire reigning &
i'm hailing a cab
waving heil hi-----
i purposely conveniently
forget the tab...

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Pritzker stripped crappers from his mansion
to avoid paying property taxes
while people are locked down
he's out painting chi town
the blue collar man will pick up his tab...

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The two for one price deal read “Open here”
with slick dotted lines and sharp arrows clear.
But false perforations
foiled nails, teeth and patience.
Surrendered, she opted for pop tab beer....

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nineteen-eighty-three
reporting onboard
USS Nimitz
she was in dry dock

Lee’s Restaurant 
in Newport News
was my hangout
in shipyard days

playing pool
making friends
Budweiser

fine food
large tab

nice...

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cut my wrists
burn my thighs
tab my heart
and hope to die

i hate my life
sufficate tonight
grab my knife
lets end this right

dont wanna go
but have to leave
cant stand my life
just let me bleed...

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Jab shabd kbhi bheeter se aaker khin gle me rah jate hain
hath unhe kagaj par laker kavita ek banate hain
tuti maala k moti ban jab shabd dilon tak jate hain
gale me atke wo lafz tab amar sahitya kahlate hain...

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Historian writes that after the mongols left lahore khokhar and gabru plundered the rest of the city.
Couplet
Wo tab bhi loot maar kartay thay aur ab bhi kartay hain
     Na yasir shami kuch bolta hai na Iqrar-ul-Hassan....

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A man steals a hundred dollar watch to get money to feed his family.
He gets caught and thrown into a penitentiary.
The taxpayer tab for his incarceration will be extremely costly for us.
I think all would be better off if we just gave him the watch....

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Sone ka too qatara dhoondhe
Kab tab usako chalaega
Pahaad khodakar jeene vaala
Khud Heera ban jaayega

Dariya kee apanee pahachaan
Ek boond se banata jahaan
Sooraj kee roshanee paakar
Chaand kitana jagamagaega

Sone ka too qatara dhoondhe
Kab tab usako chalaega...

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it starts,
a trail of nothing
but tar.

to my left,
it infects
tab,
shift,
control.

to my right,
disintegrate.

spreading its malice
home,
delete,
pause.

blocking my hindsight
and stopping me
from doing nothing
backspace,
return,

escape.
it ends....

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shoot it up
drink it down
take a tab
erase a frown

have some fun
pay the fee
take a hit
get happy

snort a line
feel really good
inhale smoke
i dont know if i should

labelled now
stuck in the mix
now its gone
where's my fix

it's called addiction
i swear i've gone insane
hundreds of different chemicals
all going through my brain....

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big hatted cat in a
hip city flat
remembering that
he was in a big
city
flat

not patient
like some other
dead cat

just not sure who's flat...or
why somebody else's

leaning over the balcony rail
looking across the 
city

smoking a cigarette

shifting through too many
impressions

responding with
so little
effect...

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Bourbon; whisky- on the rocks,
Chased by draughts of Coke
Or was it lines sniffed from the clock-
Forgotten after several tokes?

Join the Clan of Ativan,
(Betrothed to one Ms. Lora Tab)
In vodka pools, serenely swam-
By many needles, duly stabbed

My Ecstasy for LSD,
In quiet dens of Opium
Magic Mushrooms picked for me-
And a sip of amber rum......

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I load the dirty clothes into your drum
You are waiting for the tab willing me on
I close the door and wait diligently
You start to gurgle and grind
I watch as you spin making me smile
You stand there all alone, performing steadily turning
I walk away but never fear I will be back
You have finished and I am flustered
I am so grateful for the washing machine genially...

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Ruth,a lovely lady of Moab,
Nearly always picked up the tab;
Gav her mother-in-law a helping hand,
Emigrating back to her distant homeland;
Naomi quickly returned the compliment,
Matchmaking bing her special bent;
The romance of Boaz and Ruth,
Crossing wealth & caste,showed such love can last;
As grandson Jesse put forth his root,
From which sprang forth the eternal Truth....

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Ruth,a lovely lady of Moab,
Nearly always picked up the tab;
Gav her mother-in-law a helping hand,
Emigrating back to her distant homeland;
Naomi quickly returned the compliment,
Matchmaking bing her special bent;
The romance of Boaz and Ruth,
Crossing wealth & caste,showed such love can last;
As grandson Jesse put forth his root,
From which sprang forth the eternal Truth....

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No Selfie Dear…an Elfie
	
Students in Thailand stood in front,
They clicked, clicked and clicked many a selfie;
Standing behind, the elephant posed,
Posed and posed silently for many a selfie.
They tired him and his stretched trunk
Got no fruits or eatables; they were for only selfie.
The big friend’s hungry eyes their tab eyed
To eat, but on touch, the screen gave out an ‘elfie’!...

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I sipped on a hard drink
It made my senses sink
I was trying to drown my troubles
But with every sip I found new levels

I called out for the tab
To keep the count, not to bolt the pub
But I saw my own life on the bill
I saw my heirs scripted on my will

I saw death crouching for the car key
A speed demon up for the thrill
When I saw life smiling at me in a taxi
I decided keep my hands off the wheel...

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Hey Maxine will you get your passport with the vaccine? 
it keeps a tab of where you have been. 
If you don't take it, you can't go out 
How's that even legal, are you going to shout?

the algorithms block my post 
They prefer pictures and food the most 
I don't worry what they think 
Lower than them I will not sink 

I won't take the vaccine to live my life 
I believe in freedom, not tyranny and strife....

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feathers and bones at rest
                             a belly full of plastic
                       on our tab  starved  to death
     
                                        * * *
                         
                       our lives  framed  by beauty
                                 stripped of life


                           the perfect photograph*








*Image of Albatross by Chris Jordan...

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