Carrot cake would be my choice
As healthy foods help me rejoice.
Raisins, carrots, eggs, and milk
Reforms a texture, smooth as silk.
Orange juice, perhaps a cup
Together, boost the flavor up!
Carrot cake, with real whipped cream
All perfect as a double team!
Keenly nutritious- got my seal
Eaten, post a healthy meal.
Crazy to think that insipid vegetable
Aspires to be something more than rabbit food,
Rising to meet the challenge like an Olympian
Running the triathlon,
Overcoming tremendous odds to become
The tasty goodness of Nirvana.
Cupboards full of sugar and spice,
All things nice, as Grandmother chooses ingredients
Knowingly, as if choosing gems from a treasure box, then
Encoding tastebuds with the flavor of love.
carrot muffins ready steady
eardrums cleaned of sore sounds
hymn going higher than flutes
crows listen rapt mute
Divinity appears in rain sheets on
roof, darkness lifts from the kloof
carrot muffins tray not hot
eating dreams before our time
making silly rhymes looking for dimes
hunger sensations dissolve into space
buttery carrot muffins ready steady
Divinity slides off roof, woof-woof
carrot muffins ready steady spicy
tribe garbles stories of past glories
polly put kettle on before muffins cold
tray is so g_y to begin day bold
carrot muffins not to be sold
sing the hymn before crows fly
carrot muffins tray not a hot bot
tea ready steady, scoff the muffins
remember to say thankyou to Divinity
opening front door to dance the floor
listening to high hymn with crows
singing for carrot muffin crumbs to bring
muffins ready steady carrots are good
tray not hot, my lovely rabbit or robot !
What's up doc repeats Bugs Bunny
thinking he's being cute and funny
sounding like a wily parrot
while posing chewing on his carrot
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Submitted on August 14, 2025 for contest CARTOON CHARACTER CLERIHEW sponsored by TANIA KITCHIN - RANKED 2ND
Bugs Bunny loves his carrot snack,
He tricks his foes and never looks back.
“Eh, what’s up, doc?”—his teasing cue,
A clever rabbit who’s quick and shrewd too.
Poet’s Note:
Inspired by Bugs Bunny’s famous 1940 line, “Eh, what’s up, doc?”.
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Bugs Bunny loves his carrot treat—
outsmarts his foes with swift, wily feet.
“eh, what’s up, doc?”—his cheeky call,
a clever bunny loved by all.
Poet’s Note:
Inspired by Bugs Bunny’s famous 1940 line, “Eh, what’s up, doc?”.
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o_(")(") Eh, what’s up, doc?
If a conflicted carrot
based on its looks
could feel it's a parsnip
it would be a turnip for the books
and should confused chard
on corn do a number
lettuce hope the offspring
isn't a baby cucumber
some plants are quite confounded
in my garden bed
sadly the rhubarb is convinced
it's celery badly sun-burned red
A funny-looking bunny dropped by the other day
black white and brown fur a stray who'd lost his way
and
he let me hand-feed him with carrot tops
and spinach leaves but that is where familiarity stops
for
neither petting nor patting would he permit
this half-wild half-tame non-cottontail misfit
and when
with leaps and bounds he hopped while binking
around the garden it got me thinking
as
blink for a moment and at the drop of a hat
he'd do the disappearing trick in seconds flat
tho'
here one minute and then gone the next
with a nose that twitches maybe he was hexed
or perhaps
he's an astute old soul reincarnated to inhabit
the space and time of this cute magic rabbit
The rising sun cheers all to start the day with liveliness.
Carrots and pumpkins feed all to feel the day with abundant energy.
Marigolds in the vase welcome all to face the day with passion and assertiveness.
Butterflies in the garden wish all to make their day dynamic and exuberant.
Traffic cones on the road alert all to deal with the day with security and sensuality.
Pineapples are a great fruit.
Love in a cold drink.
Makes carrot cake so special.
Chocolate is fun.
Hawaiian grown fruit.
It's for me,
Loved.
carrot cake muffins
my fussy nephew complains
"I can't taste carrots!"
blood sweat and tears leave
no stone unturned move heaven
and earth pull your weight
go to great lengths make
a supreme effort bust a
gut and go all out
give it everything
you’ve got burning desire
step up to the plate
fire in the belly
spur on drive someone get the
ball rolling take pains
take the bull by the
horns jump on the bandwagon
and pull your socks up
eager beaver stay
the course give it your all throw
yourself into it
keep your eye on the
prize light a fire underneath and
pull out all the stops
roll up your sleeves bite
the bullet and pushing the
envelope spur on
Carrot top played truth or dare
Soaked the pool with his hair
He was too ashamed
To lose the game
Instead he got chlorine in red hair
Detroit rabbit couple ride their fish balloon in the Michigan skies
They like what they are throwing; there is happiness in their eyes
We wonder if they know what they are doing; as they throw out some pies
Made of carrots and cabbages, not delectable unless you are flies.
House of commons, Quebec i think,? questions and
Odd answers; the air waxed thick..up to point..' debate
Was staged, till the veil of control, almost got frayed.'
Yet oppression was to carry this bout' the speaker flipped
And switched it out, on the un-reigned shouts, a little grim?Yet a smile indeed he wore, above the sober; gown of..
( Law?) The switch on beasts maybe is banned? Whithin
The border of that land.? If one is there it must belong to
Historys annals, and in real sad songs, owned by the folk
And not one man? An heirloom albeit not that grand.' I
For one observe such tricks, the denial of carrot
And the weilding of stick..Er i mean switch.!
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