Wastepaper Basket Poems | Examples


Premium MemberUgly Plastic Fern

Doctor’s office
The fern in the corner is plastic
They couldn’t afford silk?
There is nothing refreshing about it

There is a candy jar
The old guy has been up there six times
I know because he brings the wrapper to me
I am sitting next to the wastepaper basket

That fern is disturbing
Anything that ugly should not be shared
I would be doing them a solid
If I put it into the wastepaper basket with these wrappers
Categories: wastepaper basket, satire,
Form: Free verse

Pig Not Pie

A barrel of oink is a snout snaffling. Order of pig sect of oink. In a pink summersaulting cartwheeling ham chunk. Wee wee weeeee. Rolling. Hilltop. Hollybush road. Rhododendron. Raid bit trade. Road not noted. To be seen is to chippy tea and biscuits and caked bacon chop. Large amounts of stew. Hahahaha and now a fish earring. Hahahaha and a wastepaper basket with ten arms and twenty legs. Attempting the javelin. Oh how great. Fantastic. Such array. Magnitude. Fortitude questioned whether it is a village? Hahahaha rapid trend annual annuls **** analogues. No hahahaha to that toothpick asylum. Nor grin. Pitter patter then. Thoroughbreds' leaving now so goodbye. Gooseherds' and gooseheads with lemon sauce drip. Pachydermia. Xzx
Categories: wastepaper basket, adventure, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: I do not know?


The Writer

The book lies open
discarded notes
framing the corner

your room so quaint
pictures hang
askew!
 
You carefully smile
avoiding
guarding

You have learned to guard

a wastepaper basket
full of nothing, so you say

wrinkled corners peak
over the edge

You silently wring your hands
trying to hide

To hide what?

Who you are?
Where you came from?

Your gut wrenching love 
spills, your fevered mumblings

You stare at the basket
then turn away

It’s just not good!
Just not good enough

How can you be so sure
if you hide 
and, don’t tell the world

Don’t let go!
Don’t ever let go!

Your conscience screams

Your cupboards full 
of empty corners

Your fridge unexplored
Your hands cold

And your unwaning love
begging from an impatient

metal Bin

Where perhaps, rejection sits?
Categories: wastepaper basket, life,
Form: Free verse
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