Best Rhubarb Poems

I put my shoes on back to front
to step into the past,
sent my watch by express mail
to make the time go fast.
Wrote 'atom' down as 'mtao'
just to generate unclear fusion,
told my friends I wasn't there
but an optical illusion.
Put my head on upside down
for a thicker...

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My husband bought a little treat,
A favorite thing I love to eat.
We rarely see this anywhere
So take advantage when it’s there.

I never ate this in my youth
For what’s inside, to tell the truth,
Is something that did not compute –
It seemed more veggie than a fruit.

I’m...

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Oh for a taste of rhubarb pie!
Home picked, home baked--
Mouth watering, I don’t lie.

A tart and sweet delicious delight;
Tingles, mingles with the tongue.
Mom always cooked it just right!

Some might let theirs go to waste,
But I’ll eat their piece without delay,
I just love that capricious taste!



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They wait in the streets with a bucket and spade
The gardeners waiting for a horse to oblige
First it is the milkman, with bottles a rattling
Then the coalman with his nutty slag in a bag
The horses of each carrier doesn’t look like he will
Lift his tail...

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Kermes crushed to yield the dye;
A warming colour of pinkish hue
But a finer harvest can be made
To delight the eyes and taste buds too

Fine in trifles, crumbles and tarts
Shared after summer walks
Or in the depth of winters cold
We'll devour our crimson stalks...

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You must know where to look for wild rhubarb.
Walking along the busy street, cars whizzing by, no real hope
for the suffocated earth beneath the road. The bitter beauty awaits
in darkened edges of sun-starved trails, seeking no one’s approval,
the wild man enjoys the bitterness, preferring edges...

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Tart
fruit,
hidden
close within
a vegetable-
Cicely will make it sweeter....

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There's something going on around here, something special. 
Something's being tossed in the bowl- (sort of speak). Something that to my likes, tastes and smells as good as any cheery pie, apple strudel, or creme filled pastry. I suppose it's in the air, or, in...

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Having lived out in the country
when I grew up near a farm
in our large garden, we grew rhubarb
large stocks of it, big as my arm

My mother made loads of it
we called it stewed rhubarb
left it to cool before entering fridge
then have a bowl of it...

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pink and green rhubarb
found renegade and leafy
best pie ever baked...

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have you tried tangy zingy rhubarb pie?
I like the taste, oh my, oh my!
I like the colors of pink and green
everything about it is terribly keen.

I like rhubarb pie cold, it is a dream!
It is fantastic too warmed up with vanilla ice cream
granulated sugar on...

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I just saw a little beast outside!
I think he has scurried off to hide!
Is he a little chubby with a pretty face?
That’s Rhubarb my hedgehog, he has such grace.

You mean you are feeding this rodent creature?
I surely am, he is like watching a double feature.
He’s...

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the noble rhubarb
breathtaking Himalayas
rare awesome flower...

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