Washing and Drying Up
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Each night after the evening meal
there was never a discussion
as to who would wash the dishes
and who would do the drying up.
My mother was the washer,
my sister and I did the drying up.
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Categories:
tableware, memory, mum, sister,
Form: Free verse
Restaurant Reapings 3
...Aware of my attention to her as well as my proximate presence, she went on in a steadily refined rhythm, neither upset nor uplifted, holding my slick sight at reducible ductility and scotching its sn...
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Categories:
tableware, inspirational, writing,
Form: Haibun
Forgiveness Table-
...You sit at the table, waiting;
Conjoined with fancy silk linen;
Golden tapestry tableware;
Customly so fitting
Welcome to the table
Come sit down sup wit Jesus
Walk down the altar Just As Y...
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Categories:
tableware, analogy, forgiveness, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Pen Sated
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My auspicious Holiday Muse,
it has a hunger pang...
A pen which merrily sings of words,
joyously written in the heart
Honored friends and guests
invited freely
to a feast of though...
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Categories:
tableware, allusion, appreciation, holiday, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Underneath Your Pillow
...You've been hiding from me long enough
Now I'm willing to take with me
Anyone willing to go after you
To close the hate I have for you in a cup
Sweetened with my no
To polish my tableware clean
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Categories:
tableware, art, child, god,
Form: I do not know?
Moment Stolen In Time Beside Me Lay
...As I stand by the kitchen window I must say
My chin against my chest spent from working all day
Warm wet soapsuds adhere to my hands as I pray
Washing the seasoned tableware, running away
Unfaste...
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Categories:
tableware, dream, work,
Form: Monorhyme
Table Talk
...We're sitting on the Dining Table,
Salt and Pepper by ourselves,
Tablecloth is in the drier,
Dinner Plates still on the shelves.
Later on there'll be a banquet,
fifteen guests, and all bl...
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Categories:
tableware, writing,
Form: Quatrain
Table Talk
......dedicated to Billy Collins
We're standing on the Dining Table,
Salt and Pepper by ourselves,
Tablecloth is in the drier,
Dinner Plates still on the shelves.
Later on there'll be a banquet,
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Categories:
tableware, funny, on writing and
Form: Quatrain
Hewing a Colorful Christmas
...Green, spruce tree with ornaments to spare
Turquoise lights gleam and brightly flare
Crimson stockings are bulging with a sweeter fare
Purple, velvet bows spliced on presents with care
Blue garla...
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Categories:
tableware, holiday
Form: Rhyme
Table Talk
...We're sitting on the Dining Table,
Salt and Pepper by ourselves,
Tablecloth is in the drier,
Dinner Plates still on the shelves.
Later on there'll be a banquet,
fifteen guests, and all bl...
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Categories:
tableware, imagination
Form: Rhyme
God's Artistry
...Who taught the fish to swim,
in garden's pond.
Who paiinted the flower's gloriour colors,
showing them dances on the lawn.
Who captured fluffy clouds,
and tied them in the air.
Who pasted th...
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Categories:
tableware, faith, love, nature, universe,
Form: I do not know?