Coins On The Tray
They laid their gold
on a tray the color of midnight,
fingers ringed in stones
that caught the candlelight like captive suns.
Outside,
a boy with a patched sleeve
watched frost stitch lace
across the bakery window.
His breath bloomed and vanished,
a ghost repeating itself.
The men inside
spoke of progress —
steel rivers,
glass towers that drink the clouds,
oceans combed for oil.
A gull’s cry cut through
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Categories:
tray, grave,
Form: Free verse
Ice Cube Tray Solves the Case
Detectives found everything shipshape and in its place
Except an ice cube tray full of water sitting on old lace
This housewife was neat, she would have never left it out
We arrested the culprit, none of us had a doubt.
I’m innocent the salesman yelled at us police.
But she would have put it in the freezer, Miss Charice.
Jury
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Categories:
tray, murder,
Form: Rhyme
A heart on the waiter's tray
I give you a heart on a tray
Still beating, I serve you, you are in my restaurant
I am the waiter, you ordered a special menu. A heart
Enjoy, this is a suffering heart. Salt? Black pepper?
If you want I slice to you my heart. Do you need it?
Do you want the steak of my heart?
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Categories:
tray, fate, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Delay Not
Find out where your reasons lay
For every preferred delay
And keep in mind that men pay
For the legs they dragged all day
To “Be fast!” “Out of my way!”
Smokers stuck to their ash tray
While loved ones like donkeys bray.
As we delay lots at bay,
Precious time we boldly slay,
Little answer when we pray,
Wasted April leaves for May
And later
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Categories:
tray, character,
Form: Rhyme
On That Shiny Red Tray
Lunch on my shiny red tray,
Simply is, the luscious part of my day.
Swiss steak, simply made to perfection.
Mixed colorful veggies, is my culinary selection.
The scent of a warm, wheat roll wafts up my nose.
I have the sense, that after lunch, I will with comfort, dose.
Steaming French coffee and a fresh baked chocolate cookie!
A quiet nap after
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Categories:
tray, food, imagery,
Form: Couplet
Cos the Lady Loves Milk Tray Abb
the dog's bark was a ferocious sound
the man stood motionless ..should he run or wait
imagining the jaws that would seal his fate
the window half open was a chance to escape
stood motionless….. his brain went into overdrive
resisting the urge to run…. to survive
under his arm was his calling card
a box of milk tray for the lady,…
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Categories:
tray, chocolate,
Form: Rhyme
By the Cheese Tray
It’s another sordid workplace affair
Organized by the dashing and flamboyant Pierre
There should be a warning to beware
Bad week to start any diet – o what despair
Millions of calories everywhere
On one side a mountain of chocolate éclair
On the other a huge tray of Camembert
It was hard enough to squeeze my derriere
Half-way out of this big
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Categories:
tray, celebration, chocolate, food, vanity,
Form: Monorhyme
Categories:
tray, anxiety, change, conflict, confusion,
Form: Light Verse
Ride Over Four Billion Mountains On a Baking Tray
Ride over 4000000000 mountains on a baked tray
Times a tide,
Divide a ride,
Equal to no one is the writhe of a sprite,
In a whirl of a rotating rhombus,
Is the real
The reality of an equilateral is the lathe of a scimitar
For no reason look beyond the y and see an x but never see a z
For that
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Categories:
tray, age,
Form: I do not know?
Your Tray
Deep in the ocean
Two buds bloom in joyous dark
And then it is light
The sky in the boat
Rides the sail and moonlit wind
Become shining stars
From the mystic bridge
In awe and love we look at
Both the oranges
It is poetry
World poetry day today
Words from your joy tray
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21 March 2017
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Categories:
tray, dark, light, poetry,
Form: Haiku
Ash Tray
Oh! I stared into my soul and found nothing,
nothing but ,heaps and heaps of ashes,
My reflection, the beautiful art, the fragrant paint, the intricate gems on ashtray;
enchantment to the eye of the beholder.
My soul, but the simple underlying glass plate;
the bearer of those fiery deep gashes.
I cried out ! lamented day after day,
Why me?
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Categories:
tray, dark, light,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
tray, animal, dog, drink, food,
Form: Couplet
Lap Tray
With nervousness sewing up
I set to sew my lap tray ,
And voila ! It's done .
-Ism
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Categories:
tray, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Haiku
Trilling Tray
Trilling Tray (Limerick)
Parrots have men in the palm of their hands
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Categories:
tray, freedom, growing up, history,
Form: Limerick
Veggie Tray
My veggie tray's selection was unique.
'Twas still offered to a jittery sheikh
Who hopped from foot to foot,
Ignoring the ginger root,
Took an onion, saying, "Gotta take a leek!"
He ran off to the loo speedily.
Later on, he returned back to me.
Assessed my tray and proceeded
To eat a pod that was seeded.
I asked him, "Tell me sir, how
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Categories:
tray, food, funny
Form: Limerick
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