Best Gobble Poems
Here’s a bunch of Gobble-de-Gook
There is no sense or reason
I just threw together some stuff I read
Which constitutes poetic treason!
Here’s a fact about knowledge and wisdom
A fact which I know is valid
Knowledge is knowing a Tomato’s a fruit
Wisdom- not putting it in a Fruit Salad!
Another fact I’d like to relate
Pay attention if you please
The early bird gets the worm
But the second mouse gets the cheese!
Another vision that I had
I know may sound bizarre
Going to church don’t make you a Christian
Nor standing in a garage won’t make you a car!
If you need cash here’s some advice
I hope that you will heed it
A bank will surely loan you some
If you can prove that you don’t need it!
Elections are a funny thing
Our choices are quite shifty
For president we choose from two
Miss America from fifty!
When faced with a payback decision
Be careful what you choose
When tempted to fight fire-with-fire
Remember water is what Firemen use.
Someone posed a question once
I admit now that I smiled
If we all learn from our mistakes
Why do people have more than one child?
Categories:
gobble, funny
Form:
Rhyme
The “gobble-oscopy”
When the chef succumbed to his bottle
twenty turkeys escaped without gobble
took an apple and stuck it
where no one would pluck it
so the chef giving chase could but hobble
John G. Lawless
11/23/2016
Categories:
gobble, thanksgiving day,
Form:
Limerick
The turkey king struts around the yard this year
Nothing is to bother him he has nothing to fear
With Christmas around the corner he has to be brave
He has lots of Christmas turkeys that he must save
The butchers are sharpening their knives already
The turkey king is very wise, old and steady
All the turkeys are gobbling around the yard
Making their escape will be dangerous and hard
‘Await my orders’ the turkey king does shout
All the turkeys are gobbling and running about
The turkey king see’s a big black van arrive
This is his chance to keep his turkeys alive
As the big black van doors open the turkey king see’s
‘Ok turkeys, now’s the time, be off with thee’
Turkey’s gobble as they run into the big black van
They all run through the doors as fast as they can
Those turkeys are the kings now as they end up on the table
The turkey king thought he’d saved them all but he wasn’t able
He will never know what happened to his turkey clan
Next year he will do the same again to help them if he can
Proud is the mighty turkey that sits in pride of place
With its stuffing cooked perfectly we will feed our face
The turkey king will not adorn the Christmas meal
The meat on this old turkey king has lost its appeal
'Entered in Donna's contest'
Categories:
gobble, funnychristmas, old, christmas, old,
Form:
Rhyme
Screech, Coo, or Gobble –for contest
The Dove!!
What would we do
in the darkness of icy winter
sit cold and hungry
listen to its inane cooing?
The Eagle!!
The lofty hermit…
soaring above - alone
screeching at the wind
unapproachable aerie dweller.
The Turkey!!
Ah, the delectable turkey
fat thighs of hefty drumsticks
pale white meaty breast
sweet rendezvous at dinner’s plate.
Less handsome – yet
more filling than the dove.
A sensible choice
Eagle vs Turkey
Symbol vs Sustenance
Ideals vs Pragmatism.
10/10/2015
submitted to – 1776: The Eagle, The Dove, or the Turkey? poetry contest
sponsor – Mary Oliver Rotman
Categories:
gobble, humor,
Form:
Free verse
Stuffing, pickles, olives too
A wishbone for me and you
Cranberries and pumpkin pie
Dig right in now, don't be shy
Dark or white meat, it's your choice
Every things juicy and moist
Mashed potatoes, carrots, squash
Peeled, sliced, carefully washed
Football games on big T.V.s
Loud belches from beer bellies
Leftovers are wrapped up tight
For a snack late in the night
Turkey salad, soup and more
Heated gravy that you pour
On a sandwich full of flavor
Lots of things to taste and savor
Turkey day has come and gone
But it won't be very long
Till your ovens full again
Good times with family and friends
Categories:
gobble, holiday, thanksgiving, together,
Form:
Rhyme
A man had a parrot that talked so bad
A worst vocabulary no one had
The man attempted to make correction
The parrot threw epithets in every direction
Finally exasperated in a fit of rage
The man pulled the parrot out of his cage
Threw him in the freezer to cool him off
All the while, the parrot just squawked
Then suddenly it got deathly quiet
The man felt things weren't exactly right
He opened the freezer and to his surprise
The parrot began to apologize
For being so vulgar and so obscene
He promised from now on to be serene
He said to the man, I have a question for you
What did that turkey in the freezer do?
Curtis Moorman
23 November 2011
For the Gobble, Gobble contest
HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all you Soupers
Categories:
gobble, funny, thanksgiving,
Form:
Rhyme
< cobblestone streets where she strolls
waiting looking for her next clients
lip stick skirt blouse boots she fluffs hair
horn's blair people's stare all fair game
waiting looking for her next clients
dim lit streets she turns her head for another
horn's blair people's stare all fair game
liars cheaters she don't care
waiting looking for her next clients
lip stick skirt blouse boots she fluffs hair
dim lit streets she turns her head for another
cobblestone streets where she strolls
Categories:
gobble, adventure, caregiving, education, fantasy,
Form:
Pantoum
Gobble
Gobble gobble,
that's what they say,
nearly every day...
I go out to greet them.
I go out to meet them.
I go out to feed them,
I need them,
as they make me laugh.
They are clumsy they are klutzy,
they are ballerinas in training too.
I mean to tell you...
all
about
them.
They have long necks,
and big feet,
not to mention
they will eat...
everything you don't want them to,
and nothing that you do.
The silly birds...
ride around on the goats.
They are like parade floats.
They walk in the water trays,
and swim in the trough.
I tell you turkeys over chickens
are a little off.
Categories:
gobble, christian, cute, growing up,
Form:
Free verse
Gobble, gobble Tom Turkey said
hurry up and get out of bed
today’s the day
we run away
or we’ll be stuffed with hot cornbread
Categories:
gobble, bird, cute, fun, giggle,
Form:
Limerick
Gobble gobble ho ho ho it's the language of the season
Time for long johns, mittens as well as coughing and sneezin'
Kissing strangers in the street
Blubbering emotion you excrete
Mostly it's time for a “you, your wife and Santa” threesome!
Categories:
gobble, christmas,
Form:
Limerick
Go and stretch a puppy's tail,
Get with rice a manioc root,
Tell me if sun will buy moon a veil,
Or to who he gave her leather boot,
Teach me to hear coyote’s singing,
Or to keep off drunk bees’ stinging,
And sniff
What skiff
May tell you where I gobble lollipop.
If you think that you are so witty,
And brag you can do anything worse;
Visit all the liquor shops in the city,
Till you spend last loonie in your purse;
You, when you come home, will tell me,
All the grand bottles that you did see,
And swear,
No where
You saw any man gobbling lollipop.
If you find one, let our son know,
It’ll water his mouth with sweet;
Yet I’m sure, son will not go,
Though at next door you might meet;
And he were eating, when you met him,
And last, till you guide our son there,
Yet he
Will be
Gobbling bottles of Madeira, not lollipop.
Dec. 20, 2020
PARODY OF A FAMOUS POEM Poetry Contest
Contest Sponsor: L. Milton Hankins
Categories:
gobble, humor, parody,
Form:
Lyric
I was thinking - why do we eat turkey ?
The history of it is just quirky,
eat veggie pizza, why not;
home made- from the oven hot,
why not forget about gobblers perky !
Oh, turkeys run, run as fast as you can,
or you will be roasting in a big pan:
flap your pretty long feathers,
run, no matter the weathers;
keeping your head- feet and all ...is the plan !
Categories:
gobble, thanksgiving,
Form:
Limerick
turkey vultures
clean-up on route seventeen
tails and a tire
John G. Lawless
©7/30/2018
Categories:
gobble, bird, humor,
Form:
Senryu
A former Oiler once said
Staying out of debt
Give up being a bum
Fill up my son
Call yourself a titan
And go do some fighting
Years then passed
While pumping gas
This entrepreneur realized
There has been one too many lies
Staring down the Giant model making Ford
Letting out a Lion’s roar
“I am a Texan
It is time I start checking
I wear the red, white and blue
What are you going to do?”
Later on a lone star
Was sitting outside in the car
Having DC red skin
Due to the twins
They do not look alike
And someone gave one a mike
Keeping an eyeball on them
Waiting for the word ‘when’
After the family meal
It was the deal
A lone star imprinted on center stage
Relieving everyone from the dining table cage
There was a plan to capture the scalp
From the lone star who was knocked out
“How dare the twins
In all their wins
Not look the same
Playing their game fore fortune and fame”
Mumbled the lone star in a dream
Allowing everyone in the room to scream
“What a hairy situation this was
But we all know being a lone star you needed the buzz”
As the moon started to rise
And sun disappeared from the sky
Death was flying in the air
When the steel curtain decided to open the stage affair
Edgar had his reason to use his de Penn
While having one last left over dessert in the den
Giving all his heart to the night time entertaining start
Understanding the pendulum in the pit was made of metal
And issues had to be settled
This left old Edgar a reason to mettle
Before putting some more in his cryptic kettle
Since the Texan lone star twins were no longer there
It was time a poet writes a scare
Acting like a crow
This drunken Poe
Without a mate
And a date
He started tweeting
Keeping the holiay season pulse beating
“Day of thanks is almost done
And festive time has come
Gothic autumn classics
Have turned their leaves over to shopping plastics
But it is not what you give
It is how you live
I will give it now over to Mr. Dickens
Whose words are still ticken
Go forth in artistic ways
We will all pray
When the Saints play
In the French Quarter on Christmas Day”
Categories:
gobble, america, appreciation, giving, holiday,
Form:
Rhyme
Gobble gobble ho ho ho it's the language of the season
Time for long johns, mittens also coughing and sneezin'
Kissing strangers in the street
Blubbering emotion you excrete
Mostly it's time for a “you, your wife and Santa” threesome!
Categories:
gobble, holiday,
Form:
Limerick