Best Broth Poems

I have been to Ireland
Noticed the Colour Green
Is predominant in the fields
Where the produce is seen

Besides the grand potato
Of which Ireland is renowned
The green bean that grows
Put in a broth, will add the crown

Amongst the variable farm stock
Pigs, sheep and cows you’ll see
The cows are...

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We were off to book our holiday, already we’d had words,
‘Don’t think you’re spending all the week admiring dolly-birds!’

My fella laughed out loud and said ‘Just stop your flamin' hopping,
there’s absolutely no harm in a bit of window shopping’

Sitting at the agents, we studied every...

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The cleaning ladies are here, oh boy!
We'll soon get through the rubble, oh joy!
Perhaps a bomb went off
There's swimmies in my broth
Doing the backstroke and loudly yelling ahoy!


© Jack Ellison 2016...

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Dedicated to all my Friends at Poetry Soup
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I just took some time today
To truly get to know my new friends a tad better
Never had I realised how truly lucky I am
To be a green shoot in the middle of...

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Brexit Sonnet No.20
‘No More Hell-Broth’
 

Our Brexit bringers are cross with their leader ‘tis said,
Confidence lost with their gabardine dream of last year.
The model’s moved on, but distress on how they are led
Is causing them angst, with some pain; even fear.
Kindness is due to the...

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A hearty bowl of chicken soup
  was set before the lad
at a delicate, tender age
  by his doting mom and dad

Into the thick broth
  the lad plunged his spoon
Hot steam rose up
  raced through the room

The lad inhaled
  his face...

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The cleaning ladies are here today oh boy!
We'll soon get through the rubble oh joy!
It's like a bomb went off
There's swimmies in my broth
Doing the backstroke and yelling ahoy! center>...

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The Broth 
The Broth 


Too many cooks spoil the broth is the adage eye have heard it all my life. The 
cook one is not used to sharing the pot the cook two has arrived and she is trying 
to survive and the hair is...

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The cleaning ladies are here today oh boy!
We'll soon get through the rubble oh joy!
It's like a bomb went officially
There are swimmies in my broth
Doing the backstroke and yelling ahoy!...

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Easy spirit. Bones erased into dust. Much heavy man made nothing in seconds. 
Justice is meaningless before the mountains of death 
Harmony in silence
Waking inside a spider web of my own creation
Junk food makes me sleepy
Questions of hunger before teas and tugboats
Submarines lost and tough...

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broth
fever
remedy
chicken noodle
helps you with sore throat
tasty vegetable soup
salty and warm going down
you can add it to anything
I drink it plain when I have a bad cold...

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I've oft been offered but not tempted by
large helpings of pie in the sky
from too many crooks
who indeed the broth did spoil
and so as not to be sullied
by such greasy oil
I stay out of their kitchen
not because I can't stand the heat
but what's on their...

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