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Tabletop Poems - Poems about Tabletop

an utterly useless tale

...An utterly Useless Tale

On a big round oak table in a living room, a vase, in its small crack, lived two house ants. They were sitting outside,  considering a box of matches on the tabletop. 
“if...
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Categories: tabletop, absence, abuse, age, anti
Form: ABC

Premium MemberLegends, lyrics

...Hello one, hello all and the listener guest. It’s time to recall the mainquest

The Legendary Adventure Moments of Doctor Hermione Baggins the Reddish of Winterhold,
The Master Sith Rainbow Lord L...
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Categories: tabletop, fantasy, fun,
Form: Lyric



Premium MemberEarth

...as waterfalls tear* down my sheer cliffs – 
sculpted by time’s relentless tide 
defying the laws of nature
my age undefined; hidden
towering over my world – 
a beacon for lost souls
enduring …
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Categories: tabletop, nature,
Form: Other

Premium MemberDid you see how that cookie crumbled

...Did you see how that cookie crumbled,
and then tumbled, and tumbled, and tumbled,
from the tabletop down to the floor,
and then tumbled and tumbled some more,
and did you hear the "Oh no!" that s...
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Categories: tabletop, 2nd grade, children, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPaper People

...I see a legion
Of paper people
Marching across the tabletop

Hysterically yelling
About their war
On parchment rights

Etched on their fibered faces
Were faithful ideas
Expressed in...
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Categories: tabletop, people, world, writing,
Form: Free verse



Coco Tabletop and Grill

...walk the urban sprawl, 
where skyscrapers pierce the sky 
cities bleeding_assoc. 
carnival lights bloodshot dreams that flee, 
like squirrels unconfined biting frost of winter, 
within the tumul...
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Categories: tabletop, environment, extended metaphor, humanity,
Form: Free verse

A Drinking Man

...Each night she left him bleary -
his mind foaming in a glass
of Guiness.

Disappointments wore her life thin,
nuptials picked to a fugue and dinge,
by his thick-tongued spiel.

“I can change ...
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Categories: tabletop, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBecoming Me

...Music came out of my fingers
made me dance all over the wall
My parents were askance
For I was a newborn from a small town

I was tapping my fingers on my highchair tray at one
Loving the feeli...
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Categories: tabletop, me, music,
Form: Prose Poetry

There Is Honey

...Butter the toast, butter knife, bread.
blue plate, no sunlight, short-sighted blue night,
electric rings of silence.

Breakfast is slow,
not that hungry but there is honey
and I am lonesome in ...
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Categories: tabletop, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRoaming Tabletop

...roaming tabletop 
persian’s taste for dainty things
the french-pressed coffee
soft black fur prowling tea cups
be careful kitty, it’s hot...
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Categories: tabletop, cat, drink,
Form: Tanka

A Patchwork Mary

...Scrubbing dishes in a cold kitchen,
on a tabletop rats nibble
through a leather bible cover. 
She turns,
a lock of sweat matted hair over one eye,
shakes a red knuckle at a wailing child
sat on...
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Categories: tabletop, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Daiya Vegan Non Dairy Cheesecake Oh Yum

...Daiya vegan non dairy cheesecake - oh yum!

Hard knocks Methacton school alum
ofttimes finds ruining his fate
while squarely planted on me bum
nevertheless felt rightly triangulated 
flashed mo...
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Categories: tabletop, addiction, appreciation, birthday, cool,
Form: Rhyme

Easter

...Another Easter spent
feasting on Jelly Bean Martinis,
sculpting butter lambs
with Nana’s mastiff Escort
snoring by tabletop fire.

Aunt Bea smoked lemongrass,
shading wooden eggs 
with Dapple...
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Categories: tabletop, bible, candy, easter,
Form: Free verse

Misty Over Milk Shakes

...I was a simple picture of a person,
just a gulp of a guy.
She was not my first girl; she was my second.

It was a Dairy Queen date,
banana milkshakes,
me tanking-up on her foggy eyes,
imaginin...
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Categories: tabletop, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Daiya Vegan Non Dairy Cheesecake Oh Yum

...Daiya vegan non dairy cheesecake - oh yum!

Hard knocks Methacton school alum
ofttimes finds ruing his fate
while squarely planted on me bum
disheveled and unshaven,
whereby gray stubble encrus...
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Categories: tabletop, addiction, anxiety, appreciation, atheist,
Form: Rhyme

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