Best Kidney Beans Poems

The Heist of the Kidney Beans

By Elton Camp

In Pascagoula, Mississippi a burglar did grab
Several times from the drug store some Lortab
The Fred’s store manager very...

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~Brown Rice cooked with kidney beans
   Southern home flavor
   Curried chicken and ginger
   With  pear preserve sauce
 ...

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The Grinch lays exhausted on bales of hay,
tired of chasing drunk reindeer from his still.
And he's sure to be lectured by Santa,
as if it's his...

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Is crimson the new black
Or just a poet's muse
Should I be standing before the jury
Yes your honor, it is true

What will be the new crimson
Candy...

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Vicks Mentholatum. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I sometimes open the jar and stick my nose in for a little smell
Which turns into a big smell, a little on my...

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Anybody is well fed
if they like vegetables that are red.
There are onions, tomatoes, beets, and kidney beans.
Don’t forget vegetables that are green.
They include peas, lettuce,...

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THE MAD DASH

At last, I've made the mad dash and my cardboards are full of tins
Kidney beans, chickpeas and butter beans, who grabbed first wins

With...

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she loves mi
beyond my scope or scale
she loves mi
and speaks it in sultry detail
I have love
for someone
I'm
in love with
connected by the heart
I miss her when...

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Chili so tasty,
just for you,
cool day in summer,
great time to have
a nice hot bowl
of home cooked chili,
Start frying hamburger,
drain grease, put in
large pot, add Red...

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The visibly yellow set, a bus stop
and a being of excitement. The
taste buds now saved from all the
vices, to not ruin what was promised
in the...

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Close up,
one eye is pinned against the lens
of a freshly sweat-slickened microscope,
while the other eye winks;
equal in effort of support,
they strain to penetrate 
the thickened...

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Rice cakes? Domestic or foreign?
Domestic – aisle seventy-three, 
Foreign – aisle seventy-four.

Hearing aids?
Let me look at my map.
They are in aisle twenty-eight.

Lima beans? Kidney beans?...

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Concrete keeps falling on my head
Imagine how painful that is wished I was dead 
With a little Vaseline
And a can of kidney beans
Rub gently and...

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Alone and hungry
left leg aches like a broken peg
in the mugginess of its left slipper.

Not a good day for fixing anything
but the sealed and over...

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El Vals, she spoke my name
to have us to come in
for lunch.
" than oh gracious
might we dine
together
 a celebration of man
in the sight of God
might...

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