Take Away Poems

Premium MemberWaiting 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

Premium MemberFast 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

Premium MemberCruel 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

Premium MemberTime 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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