Waiting in The Lion Dance Chinese Take Away
I sit on a straight back
red vinyl chair
in a Chinese Take Away
waiting for my beef
and black bean sauce,
pork chow mein and a serving
of special fried rice - hear
from behind a beaded rainbow
coloured curtain the sizzle
and spit of hot oil, the constant
sound of a ladle scraping
the sides of a wok,
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Categories:
take away, food,
Form: Free verse
When Trump Talks, My Trades Walk
I was sipping tea, so calm, so sweet,
Charts were clean, no sign of heat.
NY session, chill as can be,
Then—BOOM!—the news comes straight for me:
“Trump is back, and he's not done—
More tariffs, more drama, more Twitter fun!”
He taxed China, slapped their goods,
Markets flipped—I lost my “shoulds.”
Steel from Canada? Hit with a fee,
Even Mexico got no trading
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Categories:
take away, adventure, africa, dark, emotions,
Form: Narrative
Take Away My Shame
Take away my shame
They go for the award
I go for the message
They want to be popular
I just want a legacy
They are money hungry
In disguise of motivators
I fish them out and remark them
With the songs of my soul
No wonder they don't love my shadow
They can always smell
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Categories:
take away, africa, deep, freedom, inspiration,
Form: Epic
Only God Knows When To Take Away the Altar
A year: good, fair or bad has come and gone
The fairy tale you tell may be touching
Satan tried but no reason so to morn
Of your past, it has not been that clutching
Lord called and draw away you from the world
Yet tough but thou search not of other way
Of priesthood's challenges you've unfurled
Humility cum
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Categories:
take away, 1st grade, age, art,
Form: Sonnet
Fast Food, Fast Death
Let’s get some pizzas nice and cheesy
Nothing to cook, life is easy
Another quick fix, just what we need
Fast food, at lightning speed.
Food can fix most of our troubles
Deliveroo, comes to our homely bubble
Stay in and they deliver
Bad for your heart, bad for your liver
A gallon of coke, quench your thirst
Rot your teeth, a trip in
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Categories:
take away, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Let No One Take Away Your Happiness
Let no one take away your happiness
Happiness is precious
It is sweet
It is a gift
A gift somany don't have
But pretend to be
So protect your inner self
Protect your source of joy
Don't let the world
To steal it away from you
Don't let the challenges
Of life walk you out from
Your happiness
Your are
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Categories:
take away, africa, deep, inspiration, strength,
Form: Epic
Take Away My Soul
I want to be lost,
As bored with this world.
Harmed the whole nature almost,
God should tie it a strong long bridle.
Nasty, fasty, humans,
Damaging the reality.
Some one come ahead of the crewman,
Can someone come ahead confidenlity?
My soul is becoming black,
Without this nature.
But I will not give up,
I will save all the creatures.
Mind is so dangerous,
Can not stop
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Categories:
take away, nature,
Form: Rhyme
A Poem That You Take Away Without Knowing It
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It was a love that spoke for itself,
as natural as a poem
which grows in a flower
at the end of its rod.
without ever having confessed it,
I have never conjugated the verb to love.
Life goes like this:
we don't know if she goes ahead
or slips through our fingers:
The most beautiful roses fade,
not their beauty,
but through death, which takes
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Categories:
take away, death, flower, french, grave,
Form: Free verse
Cruel To Give and Then Take Away
The wind would blow alluring strands of your soul, tickling seductively, weaving like a candle flame lyric, where it danced provocatively. You fondled the depth whirling to the surface edge taking a little hope with you; then flew away. You cannot ask and then leave me brittle.
1/4/2020
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Categories:
take away, love,
Form: Free verse
Soon Take Away
I watch daily as you traverse in life
Throughout the moments of your day
I feel your sorrow, I feel your pain
As you are lost in your worldly ways
Many times I try to get your attention
Yet so often you are too blind to see
That in your world of hustle and bustle
You now have a much greater need
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Categories:
take away, change, christian, devotion, encouraging,
Form: Prose
God Does Give and Take Away
Yes, God does give and take away
but when He gives, it is a gift
a truth your life so well portrays,
the one our lives were well spent with.
Our minds and hearts they cling to you
sifting through every memory
to find the best of you to be
what God chose to invest in me.
Yes, God does give and take
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Categories:
take away, cry, death, death of
Form: I do not know?
Join Strong-- Take Away What's Going Wrong
There is no reason or rhyme
Day after time, time after time
We hurt others for no reason
It's like something has been squeezin'
The love from everyone's heart
We need to make a brand new start
So hugs are the only thing
We are squeezin' as we bring
More caring and much less hate
Believe me it is not too late
For making a
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Categories:
take away, anti bullying, community, hate,
Form: Rhyme
Time Can'T Take Away
The changing times,
the invisible wrap on the virtual space,
we call ours in the deceptive world
where we truly don’t belong
because our footprints fade in deserted life
swept by the blowing sands of time
throwing us out of the niche we call ours,
to where we turn into faceless aliens
struggling to measure the matrix of change,
an effort some say
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Categories:
take away, inspirational, joy, life, new
Form: Free verse
Friends - You Give - But Then You Take Away
You give to me
But then you take
I suppose that was my mistake
I know now what not to do
And that is ever trust you
I will therefore go on my way
Still saying what I need to say
And live my life free every day
Without you or your devious ways
It’s my life to live and not yours
So you
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Categories:
take away, best friend, confusion, growing
Form: Free verse
Take Away Right of Way
These just came to me between 0500 and 0800 this morning Jan 06, 2018.
When You Take Away Right of Way
When you take away right of way,
And also along with right to say,
If you amend,
We commend;
From rules people seem to stray.
Jim Horn
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Categories:
take away, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
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