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Tabletops Poems - Poems about Tabletops

Premium MemberThe Subject of Rosebuds

...Rosebuds draft in scarlet, crimson, or maroon,
dreams to capture the viewer's point of view,
as its blossom's sheath their basis to its prune,
magnificent achievers rise in rows queue,...
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Categories: tabletops, beautiful, flower, growth, rose,
Form: Ottava rima

Ever Since

...A large green iguana fell out of a tree
onto my head.
Ohio has no invasive Iguanas.
I don't smoke anymore.

Right in front of me
a speeding red van killed a woman.
I have developed an allergic...
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Categories: tabletops, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberFading Photographs

...Fading photographs are strewn across alabaster tabletops,  
drenched in moonlight streaming through rustling curtains.  
Snow owls call out to each other through the whistling wind,  
as flakes of...
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Categories: tabletops, bereavement, december, introspection, poems,
Form: Free verse

Key Lime Pie

...Cream freshly whipped up
Lime zest rests on tabletops
Sunlight streaming in...
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Categories: tabletops, color, creation, nostalgia, sun,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberCompanys Coming

...The tinted walls’ filled with paintings -
Max, Bull, Fanch, Chen and Noah.
The mantel, shelves, tabletops cleared
to be lemon-dusted and windex-spritzed.

Company’s coming. Lots to be done.
Bli...
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Categories: tabletops, fun, grandson,
Form: Free verse



Time To Clean

...Some people’s homes are sparkling;
You could eat right off the floor,
With not a speck of dust the mop
Decided to ignore.

Each day they polish, vacuum, scrub;
All surfaces are cleared,
The pi...
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Categories: tabletops, home,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberI Am --

...My own gypsy roaming in countless hemispheres
A painter who splashes emotions of life’s tones
Maybe a lightkeeper flaming a child’s wonder
Also, a bookworm awed by enigmatic anti-heroes
My siblin...
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Categories: tabletops, me,
Form: List

Premium MemberNumb From Numbers

...Numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers...
   Are you numb from all your numbers?
Social security, drivers license, identity card numbers
   Numbers, numbers -- numb from numbers

Library card, insur...
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Categories: tabletops, confusion, society, technology,
Form: Light Verse

Electric Heaters Versus Tabletops Is a Nil Draw

...Age old wisdom scarred not flamed. A dozen baked bees in an hour glass perturbed. And left undisturbed as a minotaur sunbathing on a single blade of grass on a sixty acre lawn. At dusk. At dawn. Week...
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Categories: tabletops, anniversary, assonance, , western,
Form: I do not know?

Wild Blue Land

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Wild Blue Land

Such wind rushed by nearly blowing me to the side;
filling my vision so wide, wide dotted with white puffs, 
rolling clumps,  or whispy streaks of froth;
gliding sly...
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Categories: tabletops, beautiful, change, earth, history,
Form: Free verse

Mentally Ill

...Sometimes it is just too much 
I am up and want to touch
I am jovial and part of the crowd
Dancing on tabletops, being so proud
Drinking and laughing, I want to stay high
Spinning and grinning u...
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Categories: tabletops, depression,
Form: Rhyme

On Any Given Evening

...Corridors with wall sized windows are always places of rummage
Where copper candlesticks glisten and
Wood is polished by dirt particles from strenuous journeys.

Everything emits faint smells of 
Bra...
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Categories: tabletops, dream, imagination, introspection, people,
Form: Lyric

I Imagine Demons

...Part I:
im sorry that i cant care about you. valiums taste like smarties. i chew up one, then three. cry for help. im sorry i dont give a **** anymore. i have to snort a k-pin to sort myself out. and...
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Categories: tabletops, angst, confusion, depression, fear,
Form: Free verse

Loneliness

...Loneliness is having to buy
your own calendars and coffee mugs
and talking to a TV talk host
over ice cream and a paper plate.

Loneliness is a heart that roller coasters
through a humdrum day
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Categories: tabletops, life, sad,
Form: Free verse

Coffee Thinker

...What does it mean
To be brave?
I ask myself this as I cascade
Coffee, pour the coffee
Overloading vacant round things
With handles that are supposed to make it easier
Make it so much more easie...
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Categories: tabletops, confusion, introspection, philosophy, me,
Form: Dramatic Verse

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