#butter poems on Hello Poetry

Jawad Apr 2017

Me, rough brown bread;
You, soft pale butter;
Honey...
Let's be breakfast together...

Only tea is missing in the equation, but I don't know how to put that in :-D

#breakfast #butter #bread #love

crystallaiz Apr 2017

lights in our northern souls
we chew peanut butter sandwiches
and contemplate our existences
the future is sticky
and the past is honey-brown
that glues our teeth together
we swallow our words
and drown in the light

lovely.

#peanut #butter #soul #light #future #confused

Keasbey Apr 2017

You Pass the Butter

Fear not little one,
Everyone has a purpose.
How quaint you must feel,
Like destiny ripping at your wired circuits,
Looking for meaning.
Looking for purpose.

It's not just you,
We're all wired that way.
Don't lose heart,
Your work, though minimal, has purpose.

Know that there is meaning in everything we do,
For there is a master plan, working itself out.
Even if it seems useless, faint, or unimportant,
Don't lose hope,
Do not faulter,
Don't stop or stutter,
You do more than pass the butter.

#the #and #robot #pass #butter #rick #morty

Zero Nine Mar 2017

Emergent Withheld Roars

I'm not going to lie to you -- this time
Your look is the gravity pulling me down
Body by self, smell hair in your armpits
Books on the shelf stare back, bare backs
Maybe stretched out, two queers in a **** affair
could be lovers over distance, for instance
Rap time's door wanting to find love in there
We're both too busy. Fat by pelvic bones,
Butter on the hips, love means nothing
to the moment's dissent. Get your grip, too
a palm to the face a squeeze on a ***,
how does it feel up and down a woman with a ****?

You're smarter and harder than all of
my experience. Tattoos in ChiTown, pierced
lips -- upstairs -- ******* cancer on the waterfront
Who's carcinogen? Whose carcinogen crush
on a T with a blunt is worse than the other one?
I got plain Jane I got ground game
while you got the stratosphere. I got mono
You got amory. I want bite marks, I want red neck,
I want dinner of insides with a held head
I want four legs opened up
I want bodies shared in trust

I keep trying to shut this ******* voice.
It won't work

#gender #*** #town #tattoo #queer #butter #china #roar #emergence #withheld

Elizabeth Squires Mar 2017

Taste of Butter

is the lady kosher
when she talks on the subject
of integrity
that is a bit rich
for some to ingest
surely she must think
they're not onto
her falsehood crest
honesty pays
when dealing with folks
yet on many occasions
she's unharnessed
its yoke
her principles were shredded
by the things she did utter
oh for her lips
to convey
the proper
taste of butter

#metaphor #integrity #taste #butter #flasehood

D Lowell Wilder Feb 2017

The Return

Nervous that way I take peanut butter from the jar
where blinking and licking overlap
messily and focus is the last thing on
my mind.

There, just there scooped
is where the thought
returns.

No high flying; no explanation
just back, and the jar gets
put on the shelf of the
cupboard
of wood, the oldest part of the house,
and I cannot recall to write it the smell of
peanuts jarred and ant poison and southern
yellow
pine.

Exceptional journeys sometimes have unexceptional returns. How do beginnings and ends get marked? Tree rings, expiration dates on jars

#poison #peanut #butter #pine #odyssey #ant #trialanderror #stretchingout

Scott F Hemingway Jan 2017

A Conservative

Conservative make
watermark there
if he
seek not
both their
inequities in
this dissolution
close to
them both
render what
in their
agreement with
antipathy then
might grant
with only
final adoption
his again

#wall #butter #mexico #illiberal #immagration

Audrey Maday Dec 2016

12/15

You softened me
Like butter
With you sweet words and
Hungry looks
And for a while I really did feel
Coveted.
What a fool I made myself into.

#love #poem #poetry #hurt #fool #warm #soft #silly #butter #explore