Best Collard Poems
Below are the all-time best Collard poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of collard poems written by PoetrySoup members
Hank's of Milton CreekListen Up, all good citizens of Milton Creek
If it's a night on the town and good food you seek
Come over to Aces
With your smilin' faces
The...
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Categories:
collard, food,
Form:
Limerick
Grand Opening On Mlk DaySt. Milt’s Grand Opening today
Come and celebrate with us
On Martin Luther King Day
Worldwide choirs and gospel music
Singing MLK’s best loved hymns
Mahalia Jackson, Nina Simon
It’s...
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Categories:
collard, appreciation, celebration,
Form:
Free verse
Wanda WomanShe takes her wand a sugar cane long
And waves it in the air singing a song
She likes to make her heroic cape
From collard green leaves...
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Categories:
collard, cancer,
Form:
Rhyme
It Takes a Whole Village To Raise a Child: the FarmerIt Takes A Whole Village to Raise a Child: The Farmer
It has been said that it takes a whole village
To raise a child; How does...
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Categories:
collard, food, on work and
Form:
Narrative
My Imaginary Restaurant
'It's A Small World' Restaurant ~ Hudson Valley, New York
My restaurant makes sense, it's rational...
the food I serve is multinational;
selected...
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Categories:
collard, fantasy, food, world,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Shiny NickelsMama ate her collard greens with raw onions, pinching a
morsel of greens with sweet cornbread, as juicy pork
neckbones lay naked of meat.
The...
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Categories:
collard, black african american, family,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Black-Eyed Peas For New Years MealBlack-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...
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Categories:
collard, food, money, new year,
Form:
Rhyme
RoughneckYou marketing types love us.
Blue all over, fear of nothing a man can throw,
Quick to bow down when the boss come by...
not the one paying...
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Categories:
collard, fun, work,
Form:
Free verse
Stepsister PrincessNo! Cut this piece here!
No! Not there!
Why didn't you cut it right?
says Princess StepSister's
hyper-ventilated syndrome,
jonesing for her next pork chop.
I would have finished
but you bellowed...
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Categories:
collard, appreciation, happiness, health, love,
Form:
Narrative
Good Luck MealGOOD LUCK MEAL
Hog jowl fried so crispy brown
Black eyed peas abound
Collard greens from the truck patch
Sweet tea down the hatch
Candied yams as well
My, do tell
YUM!!
Curtis...
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Categories:
collard, holiday,
Form:
Epulaeryu
Undaunted FlightPry me essence
Of honey dew melon
Fat back gimme
Mo collard greens
Gimme essence from
Flavas undone
Marmalade too
Of long ivory tusks
That elephants do
From the flight
Of the whip...
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Categories:
collard, africa, courage, freedom, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
Southern CookingThe South is best known for their Southern cooking, including some collard greens. All
Southern foods have been around since Abe Lincoln ended slavery for good...
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Categories:
collard, food, on writing and
Form:
Epic
Rocky Mountain Oysters Over MeatballsSo you are choosing Rocky Mountain Oysters over Meatballs
You love to eat them from a zip loc bag at the mall
You grew up in the...
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Categories:
collard, food, funny,
Form:
ABC
Ode To a Green HatThe green cuisine will make you lean.
Like Jeanne, Christine, or age eighteen.
Sardines, soybeans, along with greens
Will help you fit in smaller jeans.
The diet scene, you've...
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Categories:
collard, food, funny, green,
Form:
Rhyme
Day Before ThanksgivingDay before Thanksgiving I come home from high school
my mom in the kitchen roasting ,baking, cooking
Busier than a cranberry merchant
throw away tin foil pans aligned...
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Categories:
collard, family, heart, love, mother,
Form:
Free verse