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Takeout Poems - Poems about Takeout

Premium Member While You Wait
... It's just a row of laundromat chairs— those molded plastic ones, screwed into a fake strip of tile. The whole setup’s bolted to the lunar crust under a plexiglass dome. Every seat holds s......

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Categories: takeout, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Mantis's Mealtime Misunderstanding
... A mantis, quite dapper and green, Ordered takeout, a gourmet scene. He paid with a leaf, Caused the waiter great grief, "Sir, we only take cash, you've been mean!" ©bfa032225 ......

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Categories: takeout, animal, fun, hilarious, humor,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member That Loyal Love
...One shouldn’t be presumptuous, I know this all too well But I’ve seen such fidelity and love as strong as hell I’ve felt adoring eyes on me, her heart and mine are tied Even when distracted I can ......

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Categories: takeout, dog, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Art of Avoidance
...We collect unresolved arguments, like spare buttons in a jar— each one waiting for its moment that never arrives. Yesterday's dishes grow cultures in the sink while......

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Categories: takeout, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Descent and Ascent
... On an as is where is basis, we fell— down the elevator shaft of the day, into the buzz of a fluorescent hum, the smell of reheated takeout in cracked Styrofoam trays. The descent began when t......

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Categories: takeout, care, courage, devotion, hope,
Form: Free verse



Voicemail 003
...Hi it’s B?l?e?e?p? leave a message! Hey it’s me Jeff I know you’re at work. I was bored doing nothing But you popped up in my mind. I don’t know what to say. To start I’m glad that We’re ......

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Categories: takeout, cute love, i love
Form: Free verse
A Funny Guy Went To Town With Glee
...A funny guy went to town with glee, Came home with a rat, you see. His wife was quite cross, With a stinky meal toss, Said, "Next time, bring home takeout for me!"......

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Categories: takeout, fun, funny, humor,
Form: Limerick
Junebug
...I don't mean to make this anyone else's fault I don't mean to go back there but the bumblebee with the crooked wing in the parking lot roasting on the asphalt and I looked away you kept it in a t......

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Categories: takeout, best friend, childhood, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Neighbors
...Neighbors by Edmund Siejka It was getting colder Sun slowly Easing From the afternoon sky. Taking off his glasses He studied the front steps How was he going to get a heavy dress......

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Categories: takeout, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Daily Duties
...middle aged and middle class driving way too fast on country lanes drop the kid at school group yoga then the pool prosecco and wealth envy over lunch on to a manicure and then hair (y......

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Categories: takeout, allusion, analogy, car, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Disbelief 'N' Silence
...It all started with the crisp green leaves Transforming into all that gorgeous fall foliage With the warm breeze, came The blooms of sakura Spring for sale Then came the sudden rainstorms Summe......

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Categories: takeout, anger, heartbreak, heartbroken, moon,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Grub To Go
...black crow struts in grass, selects plump white grub, departs- takeout is ready......

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Categories: takeout, nature,
Form: Haiku
Bobby Bandwidth In Dogs Humping Act 2
...both sides use conscience for a hook it's a con artist's suitcase fill your cup in the Ocean of Tears there's enough of everything in there toasters glowing blenders humming dogs humping on lawn......

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Categories: takeout, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cautious Optimism
...Human foot-traffic is flowing along slightly faster than 2020, but most signs clearly read, "Please ......

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Categories: takeout, world,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Purgatory
...Forty days and forty nights Christ spent wandering in the desert but it’s now over ten times that, four hundred twenty days and counting in this isolation desert cut off to varying degrees fr......

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Categories: takeout, howl, life,
Form: Free verse

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