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#2 on the Top 100 New Poems list as of April 30, 2026

Veggie Footles - 2

Fungus Solarium

mushroom
sun room

Give them Voting Rights

Shallots’
Ballots

To Crush it!

Shallot
mallet

Flooded Veggie

Spinach
in ditch

Romantic Invitation

Meet me,
Sweet pea

Don’t Let it Into Salad

Hard chard
is barred

Scarred for Life

The chard
was marred

Sweet-potato Grazers

Two lambs
chew yams

Stink Weed

Garlic
Charlock

Hello, Red Fellow

I greet
my beet

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Charles Messina April 21, 2026 at 4:02 AM Such fun Footles, Andrea. Enjoyed them! Now I'm hungry (lol).

JC Brul April 15, 2026 at 4:24 PM Back to read this time and again.. "I greet my beet" Whoaaaa!!! I cannot get over to the humour it brings. ^____^ I am in deep sadness now but thanks to this...I am relieved. "Meet me Sweet pea" This is what a non AI creation brings>>>> pure happiness !! ^____< Andrea Dietrich April 15, 2026 at 8:55 PM Awww thanks so much

Rob Carmack April 15, 2026 at 3:20 PM Forgot the carrots! Congrats on your placement. Andrea Dietrich April 15, 2026 at 4:00 PM Rob, find the carrots and other veggies in my part one of veggie footles which didn't win in Brian's contest a few weeks ago

Kim Rodrigues April 15, 2026 at 6:03 AM Love the romantic invitation! Andrea Dietrich April 15, 2026 at 4:01 PM Thanks!

Victor Buhagiar April 15, 2026 at 2:08 AM Strange I do not write footles. Still you have a knack for them. Andrea Dietrich April 15, 2026 at 4:01 PM They are kind of off the wall, like I am . Haha

Joanna Daniel April 15, 2026 at 1:33 AM So fun, Andrea:) double congratulations:)

Sara Kendrick April 13, 2026 at 4:58 PM Back with congratulations on your winning work in Brian's contest. Way to go. Sara K

Paige Hind April 12, 2026 at 9:30 PM lol so cute, Andrea :)

sara Etgen-Baker April 12, 2026 at 3:21 PM love your footles...this one's truly unique :-)

David Crandall April 12, 2026 at 12:19 PM Haha, very good and funny ones - it sounds like you don't like spinach - lol. Andrea Dietrich April 12, 2026 at 12:33 PM I hate canned spinach ;it was only one I knew as a child. Now I eat it in salads with lettuce too. Thanks for reading.

Connie Pachecho April 12, 2026 at 12:16 PM Andrea, nicely done. Sweet-potato Grazers is my favorite. Andrea Dietrich April 12, 2026 at 12:33 PM Oh thanks for telling me your favorite

Silent One April 12, 2026 at 11:06 AM You do footles very well Andrea.. Andrea Dietrich April 12, 2026 at 12:35 PM Thanks, SO. Many years ago I came up with 300 of them traveling 15 hours in a car. I think all those old ones have been posted earlier in my poetry pages.

Miranda Hawley April 12, 2026 at 10:30 AM Footles are my favorite and you do them so well. I enjoy reading your footles. Andrea Dietrich April 12, 2026 at 12:35 PM Thanks. I didn't you would have them as your favorite. Do you write many?

Mike Bayles April 12, 2026 at 7:57 AM Andrea, such great word play. It reminds me of one of my favorite poets, Dora Malech. Word play is hard to do, but you did it in this accomplished poem. Andrea Dietrich April 12, 2026 at 12:36 PM Thanks. I need to find out who Dora is!

Howard Kerr April 12, 2026 at 7:00 AM Andrea, I’m so delighted for you. A selection on true merit and ability. Well done, Howard Andrea Dietrich April 12, 2026 at 12:36 PM Thanks, my friend

JC Brul April 12, 2026 at 6:38 AM Oh yes!! So happy to see this in the winners' list. Congratulations dear Andie! ^___^

JC Brul April 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM Your footles bring me smile everything I read them ^___^ Faved. Andrea Dietrich April 12, 2026 at 12:37 PM Thanks so much. And for your congrats later

Joseph P. DiMino April 12, 2026 at 2:05 AM Brilliant! You get a FAV! Very much enjoyed, with lamb or as a main course. Veggies good enough for the big, strong horse. Andrea Dietrich April 12, 2026 at 12:37 PM Thanks!!

Tom Cunningham April 11, 2026 at 10:38 PM You're on a roll with these Andrea, You're the footle queen. Tom Andrea Dietrich April 11, 2026 at 11:46 PM thanks, that's nice of you to say

Evelyn Judy Buehler April 11, 2026 at 8:31 PM I enjoyed reading these entertaining, witty footles, Andrea. Very best wishes. :) Andrea Dietrich April 12, 2026 at 12:38 PM Thanks, sweetie

John Fleming April 11, 2026 at 5:14 PM These really are very clever, Andrea (no surprises there then) - and great fun too! Enjoyed much. :) john Andrea Dietrich April 11, 2026 at 7:07 PM Thanks so much I enjoy doing them. It's just getting harder to come up with themes now that I have done so many

Sara Kendrick April 11, 2026 at 4:20 PM Good ones, Andrea. My husband had been the one doing the planting and harvesting for the last 7 years so I will not have those vegetables this year. He always liked to grow beets plus carrots and radishes which he stopped planting radishes a long time ago because we did not eat them. If this one is for a contest, it reads like a good contender to me. Way to go. Sara K Andrea Dietrich April 11, 2026 at 4:29 PM Thanks, Sara. I have never gardened. Just not for me. Especially I would not be growing radishes or beets! Watermelons and lettuce would be more my thing! Oh and potatoes and corn

Howard Kerr April 11, 2026 at 3:38 PM Hello Andrea, These Veggie Footles have been impeccably executed by you. Especially Spinach In ditch. I can just imagine how busy you are. Thanks for fitting me in and your kind reaction to Blind And Blinkered. Howard Andrea Dietrich April 11, 2026 at 3:44 PM Thanks, Howard.