Best Vegetarian Poems
There was a young librarian
Who's strictly vegetarian
For her wheat and Kale makes a meal complete
while her beau needs meat to eat
Says she; now that's just barbarian
I want to be a vegan
I want to give up meat
I want hemp DM's to wear upon my feet
No more burgers, sausages and no more lamb kebab
No more chicken drumsticks gotta fight the flab
Mushroom for me now, mushroom instead of steak
Instead of meat pie I'm gonna have a cake
A vegan cake mind, without milk or eggs
I won't be buying my cake from Cooplands or Gregg's
I think I might still do a little bit of fish
But I'll avoid putting offal on my dish
I want to be a vegan
I want to give up meat
I want to revolutionise the food that I eat
Fruit and veg is better for you than eating a cow
Sausage made from Quorn is healthier than a sow
let the little lamb live a much fuller life
Instead of carving it up young with a carving knife
I feel for the bird, I feel for the chicken
The way it's kept in cages, leaves me quite sicken
You get all the good stuff from nuts, berries and different types of seeds
You can even find it in flowers, nettles and other random weeds
I want to be a vegan I want to give up meat
Stop the polluting cattle grazing and grow more wheat!
Sometimes I think the way we view the world is a little antiquarian
for instance we have words to label everyone…from Capricorn to Sagittarian…
Take Deborah and I…we don’t eat meat…we are proudly vegetarian
though occasionally we will eat fish…which makes us pescatarian.
and since we’ve been known to eat a burger…we are most assuredly hypocritarian.
however we do not care what you eat…because we’re not authoritarian.
And though we believe in eating food that is predominantly agrarian
we know it doesn’t matter what you eat…if you are humanitarian.
It doesn’t matter if you are straight or gay…black, white or Hungarian.
If you’re Democrat, Republican, Independent or Libertarian.
It doesn’t matter…if you’re Catholic, Muslim or Sectarian
If you’re a doctor, or a lawyer…a dentist…a Veterinarian…
It doesn’t matter the type of music you like…rap, pop or opera that’s Wagnerian
or how you like your donut cream…whipped…butter…or Bavarian.
I think it’s time to apologize and end this poem
for I have shamefully become aware…
I can’t remember where I was going with it…
and, I imagine you…no longer care.
But let me end with these two hopes…
that you are not a strict grammarian…
and that we all may someday live…
in a world…
egalitarian.
Taenia Saginata – oh isn't that a pretty name
If you find one in your burger it sure would be a shame
Roundworms, flatworms and flukes can be found in beef, pork or fish
Wouldn’t it be disgusting if you found one in your dish!
Meat and fish need thorough cooking to kill these nasty beasts
Then you are safe to eat and enjoy your fish or meaty treats
I’m studying for a food safety qualification for work – this is one of the little gems I have been reading about!
4th June 2015
Tofu shaped like a bird
something else made of bean curd
Glub of globs passing for grub
with the texture of slime left from a slug
Vegetarian Thanksgiving
you got to be kidding
If the pilgrims had this to eat
they would have gone back to Europe in defeat
It's just not Thanksgiving without meat
Thanksgiving dinner won't be complete
Turkey, ham or even a goose
if it's leafy and green that's abuse
Prime rib, duck or even fish
if you want to be thankful eat a meat dish
This is a time for caring
a time for sharing
a time to be thankful and atone
by sinking your teeth into roasted flesh ripping it from the bone.
Vegetarian Thanksgiving
not while I'm living
Feed me that golden brown turkey
with twelve cornish hens
And a bucket of KFC chicken
surrounded by a platter of sliced glazed ham
Now I'm thankful, I'm thankful
Oh Lord lets dig in.
Here I am.
From top to toe
A meat-free human
Don't ya know
People asked me
Why the shoes?
I do not eat them.
I'd often muse..
But now I'm older
And life's moved on
With larger issues
To dwell upon
I'll soon be forty
Years a veg.
No highland castle
Or trust fund hedge
My account is clear.
My conscience too
But still with plenty
More to do
It thrills my soul
The human-race
Denies nutrition
With a face
A greater cause
Now lies before
The victims no longer
Just legs of four
The truth is out.
Our selfish ways
May just have numbered
All our days..
And who'd have thought
To cure our blindness
We must return
To love and kindness.
Copyright © Christopher Grieves | Year originally Posted 2021
A young Jane liked to observe, native birds and animals
making notes, sketches, and reading zoology and ethology
Her fascination of animal behavior, and their fundamentals
has taken her back in time, to work out their chronology
Jane Goodall for many years, lived among chimpanzees
to study the primates of Tanzania, in their natural habitat
immersing herself in their lives, and to help them to appease
by observing their actions, and becoming their diplomat
“Observing Chimps in Africa”, spending lots of time in trees
she imitated their behaviors, with a non-threatening pattern
that had limited murmurs, while not wanting to sneeze
and she started eating their food, as they accepted her intrusion
Two years of seeing them daily, the Chimp’s showed her no fear
when they started to approach her, in the search of bananas
The thinking of chimps as vegetarian, was a delusion of despair
as they were seen eating meat, and were nothing like Lammas
“Chimp Behavior Discoveries”, have given us some insights
about making tools out of plants, to spoon out and eat termites
Chimps have been seen, stalking, killing and eating animals
large insects, birds, baby baboons and other big mammals
Chimpanzee family structure, has dominant males at the top
and their complex social system, really helps then to develop
Their long-term family bonds, use touch and embraces to comfort
and a communicating method, a sound language that’s been taught
“Chimpanzee Family Book”, was written to educate children
with a learning tool, into saving the chimp’s struggling blight
and to protect their environment, without human development
because they are our descendants, an historic learning insight
“Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the Plants”
is what Jane advocates, for our ecological preservation
through the Jane Goodall Institute, with a few mini-grants
for her dedicated Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation
Jane Goodall’s book, “In the Shadow of Man”
is all about, our second most intelligent primate
discussing the chimpanzee’s treatment, from the human clan
and the captive moral dilemma, of abusing our historic mate
Jane Goodall, you are an amazing caring primate
who treats all life, as if you are, best mates
As I walked down the streets of Laredo
I spied a Mexican hot potato
But better by far
A Cuban cigar
With a spicy Comanche tomato
To Be or not to be...a vegetarian
Christmas in Portugal is a dowdy affair, Supermarkets
are open most days and there is no rush, and no expectation,
the hunting for happiness, family union and all that ****.
We had bacalao for lunch today, and the fish was salted and
dried at a mysterious place called Ålesund, where the sea is
calm and deep blue and teeming with cod and the fishermen/
women wear yellow overalls, speak Norwegian but change over
to English in case we should miss something very important.
Tomorrow we are driving to Alentejo to eat pork elbows, yes meat
from the elbow of the pig, first cooked then roasted and served
potatoes and cabbage. I like the cabbage the best as it has been
cooked with the elbow- there might be a more culinary word for
a pig’s elbow- looks it up yourself. I’m pissed off with this poem,
my intention was to write something romantic about food.
Tomorrow I’m going to Alentejo to eat Pernil, which is Portuguese
for pig’s elbow, (why didn’t you say so in the first place) and I will
eat cabbage and reject the bloody meat from the feet of brutally
slaughtered animals.
You confess
you are vegetarian
but, why do you chew my heart
time and again
charlotte carrot is her name
though shes not the one to blame
for a grocer came to town
and in greeting lacked a noun
so a veggie brought her fame.
Being Veggie
Here I am.
From top to toe
A meat-free human
Don't ya know
People asked me
Why the shoes?
I do not eat them.
I'd often muse..
But now I'm older
And life's moved on
With larger issues
To dwell upon
I'll soon be forty
Years a veg.
No highland castle
Or trust fund hedge
My account is clear.
My conscience too
But still with plenty
More to do
It thrills my soul
The human-race
Denies nutrition
With a face
A greater cause
Now lies before
The victims no longer
Just legs of four
The truth is out.
Our selfish ways
May just have numbered
All our days..
And who'd have thought
To cure our blindness
We must return
To love and kindness.
Jinjagoliath
23rd September 2021
She is vegetarian;
But,
When it comes to
My skin,
My lips, and
My chin,
She is carnivore.
Chopped celery carrots and
Peas; corn, green beans, too,
Add garlic and herbs, spinach
So nice; salt and some
Pepper, veggie stock
Some rice, cook
Wow!
If a cat could talk
Would he bark
If a bird could meow
Should he fly?
Man am I hungry
If a mouse ate pizza
Would it be topped with anchovies
I dunno No I like my fish raw with milk
Yeah, still am hungry
If a dog had 2 tales (tails)
One for waging and one for lying
Would he be the devil's dog
And why is this squirrel steady laughing
Rabbits are cackling
Sparrows are dancing
Robin's has got nosebleeds
Man am I hungry
Moths offering a handkerchief
Robin says thank you please
Why is the squirrel steady laughing
Chickens hatching guess wit my raw fish, dish
I'm gonna have milk, rabbits and sparrow stew
Yeah, I am hungry
Yeah, all this and yet guess what
I just realize I'm a vegetarian
That's why the squirrel steady laughing ha ha ha ha Haha ha
2/11/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2021