Best Black Eyed Peas Poems

Nigh on sixty years ago this Yankee from the State of Indiana,
Wed a lovely Confederate lass from the State of Louisiana!
I thought I knew her pretty well by the time our vows were read,
But there was a New Years Day secret that she had left...

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Black-Eyed Peas for New Year’s Meal


Black-Eyed Peas
Black-Eyed Peas

I’m going to freeze
If I don’t eat Black-eyed peas
On New Year’s Day

Black-Eyed Peas
Black-Eyed Peas

Gee Whiz please!
Gotta have those Black-eyed peas
Mammy and Pappy always 
Said, “Eat Black-eyed peas
And you will have plenty of monies 
The rest of the year...

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Lately I have lost my usually healthy appetite.
My taste buds have gone on vacation, and fail to excite.
Hamburgers, chicken, and seafood leave me cold.
Maybe it’s my menu that has grown old.
 
I step on the scales thinking surely I have lost weight,
But it stubbornly remains...

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New Years Day 2016
And the Luck of The Black Eyed Peas
Written: by Tom Wright

Jowl and black eyes with crackling corn bread,
This once a year meal is entrenched in my head.

This yearly ritual is said to bring good fortune,
To believe, or not, I always eat a...

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Black-eyed peas and hog jowl
That's what my grandma said.
Ham or bacon, but never foul.
And don't forget cornbread.

People up North may eat sauerkraut.
But in the South we eat collard greens.
The young and old, without a doubt
Know what this lucky meal means.

The more beans you eat
The more...

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Black-eye peas
Name for a group
Not some kind of luncheon soup
Had hit go to the top

The name of it is
"I Got A Feeling" stop
Oprah had them on today
For an audience of 20,000

Off the stage
Hired 20 professional
Dancers , see ,who trained
800 more to dance for free

They preformed...

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It was a meal that my late mom cooked but it sure didn't please.
Every New Year Day, Mom cooked hog jowls and black-eyed peas.
I always ate it but it was something that I didn't enjoy at all.
I would've rather had pizza, Domino's was who I...

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I'll eat black-eyed peas New Years Day hoping for better luck than last year!

Entry for Silent One's "New Year One Liner" Contest
(29 December 2018)...

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Black-Eyed Peas (Oklahoma Summer)
David J Walker

The blooms arrive in June and by
July the pea pods start to dangle 
Soon the picking will begin when 
Grandma says so shading her eyes
From the angle of the morning sun

So…. the work has begun
Cousins used to summer reunions 
Deep...

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