Best Turnip Poems

A Turnip and a Cabbage
    are walking down the street.
This may seem a might peculiar 
    as they hadn't...

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The lowly turnip
Earthy, fleshy
Roots falling from its eyes
Fed to  livestock
One of God’s root crops
Yet deemed  untasty
By most palates 

Carrots and potatoes
Receive accolades
Carrots in...

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Violet, a lovely lady, kin to Purple, can be a contradiction.
Between her fellows Red and Blue (yet more inclined to Blue),
she lies with a calm...

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healthy turnip greens
fall's bountiful garden reaped...
live lady bug floats ...

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Hare trigger instincts
always served Roger well
He had an oh, no-no lettuce nose — 
a hyper-keen sense   when to leave
Roger was rabbit good
at knowing...

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We're all crazy men.., it's so..
Eat a rotten turnip if you said it would bring any luck.
Fall in love at the very first drop of...

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[ to the tune of We’re off to see the Wizard
from the musical Wizard of Oz ]


If you’ve not had fried gizzard,
you’ve never had southern...

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I feel just like that old grey squirrel, 
whose belly is empty as can be.
He keeps on searching for those acorns, 
but he has climbed...

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Dad is out back,
speaking to his swedes and turnips.

He only grows tubers, root vegetables,
that I sullenly refuse to eat.

There is one flower
a Passionflower, 'Passiflora Incarnate'
that...

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For ten months now I’ve brooded over coming second place
in the pickle section deeming, it no less than a disgrace.
It was written plain and simple,...

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Apple blossoms derived from the Wild crab
Birds of paradise resemble a brightly colored bird in flight
Cosmos flowers are very popular among gardeners for its beauty
Dogwood...

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The ABCs of Things Green

Algae, alligator, artichoke, asparagus, aphids, Andradite,
Brussels sprouts, broccoli, Buffalo Treehopper, and beans,
Cuckoo Wasp, Cabbage, cucumber, Common Green Darner, and celery 
Dog...

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Black-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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Three pigs
New digs 

Straw house
Stick house

Wolf Bad 
Big cad

Huff puff
Puff huff

Chinny
Chin chin

Fell in
Big din

Pigs run
Outdone

Wolf quick
Pigs thick

Fresh pork 
On fork
……………………………………………………

Last pig
House big

In digs 
Safe pigs

Huff...

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I've heard that cantaloupes can't elope

It's against their moral code

And rhubarbs are NOT allowed to argue

I've heard that people sometimes turnip and pea

Not a very...

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