Best Bagel Poems

O delicacy born of
some cow's milk and dough
when toasted for breakfast
how I love you so

Whether topped with onions
or sesame seeds
or nothing at all
you fill all my needs

With texture from Heaven
the crunch and the cream
Mere toast cannot rival
this flavorful dream

Compared to your shapely
and sensuous curves
I'd never...

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YOUR MORNING BAGEL Doylestown PA
Consider this, as buds break out on trees
not yet a leaf, the sight that no one sees
as walking through the borough mesmerized
past ancient mansions seen, not realized.

Through early morning air, our sence of smell
arouses to a bagels morning bell;
it tells us...

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bagels and cream cheese
the best breakfast on the run
for work and pleasure...

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With walker support he enters the door
He’s there every day, from 10 to 4.
Orders coffee and bagel’d cream-cheese
Then sits there for hours with hands on his knees.

He sits near the window and watches his past
Within his mind as old shadows cast
His vague recollections of sweet...

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By Elton Camp

Old Bubba had spent his life in the hills
Plain food and drink from whiskey stills

So to the big city he decided he’d go
For about other things he’d like to know

He spent the night at the local YMCA
For breakfast, to a café the next...

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A bagel sounding foreign underwhelmingly impresses.
The thought of something different only bores.
Until you take the bite into this tasty composition
and everything you want in bagels yours.

The sour flavour fills your mouth
to sweetness for the tongue.
Saliva churning out in pulp
to leave your mouth as mung.

A basted...

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YOUR MORNING BAGEL Doylestown PA
Consider this, as buds break out on trees
not yet a leaf, the sight that no one sees
as walking through the borough mesmerized
past ancient mansions seen, not realized.

Through early morning air, our sence of smell
arouses to a bagels morning bell;
it tells us...

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I EAT 
AROUND THE HOLE 
IN MY BAGEL
SO THAT WHEN 
IT'S ALL DONE
THE BAGEL
AND THE HOLE
WITH THE WORLD
WILL BE ONE...

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MORNING BAGEL
Consider this, as buds break out on trees
not yet a leaf, the sight that no one sees
as walking through the borough mesmerized
past ancient mansions seen, not realized ;

through early morning air, our sence of smell
arouses to a bagels morning bell,
it tells us to awake,...

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In the early morning, it is a trip worth taking.
I go to the bagel shop just to smell the baking.
Into the water are little rings of yeast-raised dough.
Let them soak a bit, and into the oven they go.
There are plain and seeded with other varieties.
Hot...

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Whoever came up with the bagel
  was a right-smart clever fellow
His brainstorm surely ranks up there
  with taste treats like pudding and jello

For I'd never put toppings on pudding
  like lox, tomatoes or cream cheese
And who would think of serving jello
 ...

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Lonely bagel
Loneliness bagel
The bagel of loneliness

Togetherness bagel
The bagel of being together
Bagel of belonging...

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Toast me a bagel, please.

I've a load of laundry in the wash,
  fed the birds and squirrels
  watered the garden squash
  and now must sweep the floors.

Had my coffee early on
  but now my stomach grumbles and burns,
  in the...

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Here's a tale of a white Chevy Corvair, I car I'll never forget
   Repossessed from a gypsy, I'd be willing to bet...

On a cold, snowy winter night, February 1968
   This 'bagel' was to drive the gang and me on the interstate
From...

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A Redneck’s First Bagel

By Elton Camp

Old Bubba had spent his life in the hills
Plain food and drink from whiskey stills

So to the big city he decided he’d go 
For about other things he’d like to know

He spent the night at the local YMCA
For breakfast, to...

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