Chickens Poems - Poems about Chickens

here’s your plaque: best in uniformity & public shaming. no rooster crows without committee review. no similes unless they match the mulch. you scratch the dirt, then vote on who gets corn-fed when there's plenty to go around. not every poem is a zoning dispute, and I'm hard pressed to name anyone here an expert in the field. get over yourselves. she left. what...

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The MAGA people sing this song, TACO, TACO! They love to babble all day long, O-TACO-tay! Who's the chump who chickens out? TACO, TACO! Who's the POTUS who's gonna pout? O-TACO-tay! Gonna pout all night, gonna pout all day. I'll bet my money he's gonna pout; might as well stay away. The press secretary and the dim VP, TACO, TACO! Told what to say...

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It seemed to happen in a flash. Our movements were rash. Behind the breakfast bar With scraps of potato hash. Our webbed little feet Stuck in a muddy mash. Scores of us slip-slapping up the alley Unabashed, with feathers Mucked and thrashed Finally on the road and--boom! Crash! Linda was blindsided, Some trucker with a stash. There were eight of us now Headed for a small pond...

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There's nothing funnier than a cross-eyed chicken With legs the size of your arm The Chicken Emporiums would sure love to know The name of this progressive farm Aside from the unnerving cross-eyed feature The implications are really immense Imagine a leg on your plate so humongous You wouldn't know where to commence The cross-eyed feature might cause some concern If the patrons...

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Until we came to live in Madrid We lived with my parents in Vallelado from Segovia Where my parents had a henhouse On the outskirts of town On the left bank of the Arroyo del Horcajo Sheltered by Cerro de la Bodeguilla. Vallelado is known nationwide For its famous "white garlic" And because all its fellow villagers have "One ear on each side." My mother,...

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Those chickens commit harra-kiri daily said Nan Of free-range livestock with beaks, she was not a great fan How do they do it? Asked her cousin curious Scar Easy; they run out in the road, in front of my car...

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Chickens Much better things to use chickens for are: waiters, school crossing monitors, paper weights, door stoppers, getting us soda cans, handing us toilet paper, mowing the lawns, changing channels on the TV, washing cars, reading to us before we go to bed. ...

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(a university-life vignette) It’s a Friday night, Leong and I are at a small restaurant close to the dorm called “Ordinary.” We’re in a cozy, pleasantly dark, little red booth—waiting for Lisa—who’s running late. This is Leong’s favorite bar and her taste in exotic drinks is labile—tonight she has us drinking ‘Maker’s Mark,’ a delicious, straight-up...

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Me and my chicken Won't take a lickin' Whenever he crows Everyone knows it's Me and my chicken. Me and my chicken Our hearts are tickin' Cluckin' and pickin' Here in the thicken We keep on kickin' Me and my chicken Rooster and wiccan You be awestricken Your heart will quicken For me and my chicken. ...

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Have you ever pondered why chickens can't snore Or why elephants can't jump four feet off the floor Chickens don't have noses In fact they don't have toesies And if an elephant could jump, it would destroy the decor ...

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Chickens aim so high. Aha! That's what I thought too, When I hear you cluck....

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Some chicks We bought to nest. Out of them As they grew up Three are roosters, Started crowing. My wife and I tending them so fair our hearts now filled with pain, to think they'd be slain. "In coop and yard, there they dwell. Eggs we can eat and sell, roosters will crow at dawn", I told my wife. ...

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Have you ever pondered why chickens can't snore Or why elephants can't jump all four feet off the floor Chickens don't have noses In fact they don't have toesies If elephants could jump it would destroy the decor ...

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What a lovely bunch! Or is that bananas? I think the term is cluster. But isn’t that chickens? No, that’s a peep, as in, don’t make one. If I don’t make a peep, will I become a Silent One? If I Speak(s) Volumes will I cluck like a cluster of chickens? If I do, will I be thought crazy...

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Have you ever pondered why chickens can't snore Or why elephants can't jump all four feet off the floor Chickens don't have noses In fact they don't have toesies And if an elephant could jump, it would destroy the decor...

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