Tables

[Doreen Peri]

Tables.

You can put bottles and plates
and plants on them, you can even dance
on them. You can pile up papers on them,
serve some sugar wafers on them,
even have tea, if it's meant to be,
take your guitar out of it's case,
lie it on the tabletop, chase away
the cat that jumped up, you can
even put on jars and coffee cups.

Some tables are round, some are square,
some are circular, and some dare to be
oval, some are wood, some are glass,
some are decorated for the upper class,
some tables are ulitarian in the corner
of a room, well, they all are in fact for a
purpose.

Tables can have colorful cloths on top,
or cigarette burns, or knots in the oak.
Might be an interesting series. No joke.

[stilltrucking]

Sounds like poetry to me
I enjoyed listening to it.

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"she's waiting on tables
waiting for the tables to turn"

nothing to do with anything
just a couple of lines from a song I heard so long ago about a waitress
and brought back to mind by your poem

[Doreen Peri]

Thanks Jack. I'm painting tables. Not the tables themselves, but paintings of tables. Hah! Thanks for the idea... might put a waitress in one of them.

[mnaz]

I love them. (I could use another one).

[Arcadia]

[Doreen Peri]

The ones I'm painted are lopsided. Like my thoughts.

[saw]

could be a good series as you say....with the right tables of content...

[hester_prynne]

Shakespeare said, "I drink to the joy of the whole table!"
I dig this poem.
H

[mb]

interesting tableau

[goldenmyst]

I sold my table. Now I use a homemade computer desk my late grandfather made to dine on. It has sentimental value. In the spirit of your poem, whoever said a table has to be of a certain form as long as its big enough to set a plate on? I dine alone and have not complaints.

John