Get Your Premium Membership

Best Bring Home The Bacon Poems


About the 1500's
Most people got married in June because
They took their yearly bath in May
Body odor was the reason
Of the flowers in a bouquet

A big tub of hot water was used
For a bath, so that's not complex 
The males's right was to go first
The women and children...

Continue reading...
© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bring home the bacon, england, history, people,
Form: Quatrain
The Turkish Turkey
For this Turk Turku is a 1-horse
city but he has got to have horse
sense. He will not be as happy as a peacock in Turkey.
Hindi, the Turk word for turkey, is how we'll call this turkey.
Hindi, when living in Turkey, was a horse
dealer. Today he's...

Continue reading...
© Ivor Kos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bring home the bacon, animal, bird, fish, food,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member Different Dream
After a hard day at work I come home
Hear my boy rapping the words to his headphones
Every bleep comes another bleep
As he keeps dancing to the beat
Come upstairs and barge through the door
Say to him, "Boy whatcha listenin' to that for?"
As I rip it out...

Continue reading...
Categories: bring home the bacon, conflict, confusion, dad, music,
Form: Lyric

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



The Quintessential Parent Trap
I created you
the angelic, and the impish 
with my proud and selfless
love for you.
I enthusiastically ate for two
the sweet, the sour,
the salty, ravenous cravings.
I carried you
inside me, everywhere;
goodbye figure and posture
hello nausea and inexplicable dreams.
Laboring for hours
endless pain, draining my energy
to bring forth you
into this...

Continue reading...
Categories: bring home the bacon, funny
Form: Free verse
Mister Cliche
Mr Cliché was known for sleeping in his socks,
Where, he dreamt of thinking outside the box.
For breakfast as always he ate rather plain
Just porridge as he never went against the grain. 
Sometimes when dressing he would mumble and tut,
Making sure, to never put the shoe...

Continue reading...
Categories: bring home the bacon, humor, nonsense, parody, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Eiger Counter
Eiger counter


"Don't throw the baby out with the bath water," please the water was clean after 
father and mother and the water was better than ever even after the brother but 
when eye took my bath the poor baby was lost they looked in the...

Continue reading...
Categories: bring home the bacon, education, family, children, funny,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Woof
Woof 
Translated: small package

Four legs, four paws, big jaws, 
fancy ears and a long tail. 
My dog is from the pound. 
What did I expect?

He is six foot at the shoulder, 
Reads books, on Saturday nights. 
But, sadly he won’t eat generic brand fudge cycles.
Only...

Continue reading...
© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bring home the bacon, dog, friend, friendship, humorous,
Form: Free verse
The South Westerly
Oh! for the wet warm South Westerly 

                     after the cold white North Easterly leaving  

        ...

Continue reading...
© Peter Dorr  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bring home the bacon, winter, rain, snow, rain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Feel So Small
Deer stroll in mists that disguise the ridges
Creating a heavenly peace that soothes
This feels spiritual, not religious
And the heart does go where the spirit moves

A bald eagle glides across naked limbs
Tries to discover a new home in them
The soft feel of this memorizes hymns
Brings images...

Continue reading...
Categories: bring home the bacon, autumn, beauty, blessing, christian,
Form: Sonnet
Boredom
Boredom

Every single day I do the same stuff
I am shaken early in the morning
My days start already boring and rough
In the traffic, I listen to the honk horning
I want to stop and yell: Enough!
Oh, my feelings, my brain, it is storming
I keep thinking of some...

Continue reading...
Categories: bring home the bacon, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lioness Mother
 Lioness mother
 Creeps into the killing fields
 She's got cubs to feed
 Her hunger unslakable
 And she'll bring home the bacon



Date written and posted: 06/03/2018...

Continue reading...
Categories: bring home the bacon, animal, imagery, nature,
Form: Tanka
Life of a Soldier
BLIZZARDS  PERSISTENT  FOR  SEVERAL  DAYS , HOSTILITIES  BEGUN  BY CONSTANT  CEASEFIRES .
ENEMIES  STRIVING  HARD  TO  OCCUPY  NO - MAN’S - LAND ,
IS  OF  GREAT  ADVANTAGE  TO  ANNEX ...

Continue reading...
Categories: bring home the bacon, love, strength, work,
Form: Free verse
Old Ways Worked
The Old Ways Worked 

Oh 50 years passed by with the flick of an eye
and our people got so soft don't you see
Back in the fifties people worked oh so hard
just to bring home the bacon for ye 

Well the machines oh they came and...

Continue reading...
Categories: bring home the bacon, angstwork, people, people, work,
Form: Ballad
Message Delivery
poet talking tough
must take a stand
poisoned children
to put me under thumb
the gossip mill of word of mouth
learning how to swim
understanding genocide
living in this predicament
its me versus you, versus them
time to make a decision
time to take a stand
we continue doing nothing
we're all gonna die
trying to remedy...

Continue reading...
Categories: bring home the bacon, visionary, warchildren, house, me,
Form: Free verse
No Practice Needed
Terry Pratchett said, the best fun alone is writting
Agreed, I find completing stunning poems exciting
When thunder grows and lightning shocks the sky
It provides the inspiration for what I've got to write
Not the type to stay inside if anything's happening
But on those dull days I bring...

Continue reading...
Categories: bring home the bacon, art, confidence,
Form:

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry