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Fatback Poems - Poems about Fatback

Turnips
...What is hungry that These turnips Shall be fattened With bacon. This Spoke the troll he gathered turnips from Onsager s garden. Breadcrumbs shall atop this au gratin With bacon , pumpkin f......

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Categories: fatback, analogy, autumn, celebration, creation,
Form: Ballad
Turnips
...What is hungry that These turnips Shall be fattened With bacon. This Spoke the troll he gathered turnips from Onsager s garden. Breadcrumbs shall atop this au gratin With bacon , pumpkin f......

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Categories: fatback, analogy, autumn, celebration, creation,
Form: Ballad



Turnips
...What is hungry that These turnips Shall be fattened With bacon. This Spoke the troll he gathered turnips from Onsager s garden. Breadcrumbs shall atop this au gratin With bacon , pumpkin f......

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Categories: fatback, analogy, autumn, celebration, creation,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Good Life
... Mornings, light and smiling Coffee brewing, black Meat frying in a cast iron skillet Grease, flour and milk, stirred together Gravy poured over steaming biscuits Granny’s breakfast......

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Categories: fatback, appreciation, blessing, celebration, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dancing Fireflies Sing
... A candy dish in cobalt glass Reflecting temptations Beneath the heavy cover A hairbrush fuzzy with gray down From the head it combed On nights spent alone, awake A cast iron skill......

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Categories: fatback, grandmother, nature, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Hardscrabble Life
...Granny, hunched over the woodstove – I smell fatback frying in cast iron, Scents of morning in the Blue Ridge Mountains Along with hazy mists hanging across them, Parting for the sunlight as it m......

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Categories: fatback, inspiration, life, mountains,
Form: Imagism
Life Is Sow State Unfair
... So yo’ farm masters got yo’ phat attractive features listed on public notice, at da commodity trading display — touting you as one fine looking hoofed creature State Fairs have long......

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Categories: fatback, animal, funny, humorous, satire,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Black-Eyed Peas For New Years Meal
...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 P......

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Categories: fatback, food, money, new year,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mother
...Generous to a fault, stubborn as a mule; a bit older than dirt but as a general rule- we treasure your smile, love your sense of humor; we applaud your ***** and we've spread the rumor- t......

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Categories: fatback, humor, mother,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Jb
...BY Tony Adamo (February 3, 12) Gospel testifying soul burn’n and funk bumpn’ The chitlin circuit, funky nite clubs and low pay JB came up with a jazzified innovation of funk laid out on a foundat......

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Categories: fatback,
Form: Lyric
Daddy
...Cynic unknown bantu baptize daily. Daddy fatback dough friends maker. Songs harmony hardy.......

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Categories: fatback, father
Form: Haiku
Further Thoughts
...Sometimes I feel insignificant I try to school my son about my past ignorance I paint the pictures vivid hoping that he gets it don’t chase the fast change Son stay out the fast lane It leads to......

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Categories: fatback, people
Form: Rhyme
At Bubba's We Spent the Night
...We take Bubba home to drop him off His father and mother come out, they begin to hack and cough His father extends his hand out to shake mine My wife says don't be rude, go ahead and shake it, ......

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Categories: fatback, funny, satire, song-father, night,
Form: Ballad
Bubba Spent the Night
...Our son asked can a friend stay over He just moved here from dover The friend says tonight's Friday, usually we have pig's innards He says my name is Cleetus Billy Joe Jim Bob Jones, after he stut......

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Categories: fatback, family, food, children, friendship,
Form: Ballad
Red Necks
...The deer is a warm and fresh road kill Will go good with the moonshine from your still That red neck life style you will always have Red Necks don't have to have a reason to be mad You feel that ......

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Categories: fatback, family, children, funny, life,
Form: Ballad

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