Food Light Verse Poems

THE MICE ARE OUT TONIGHT

The mice are out, it is a wonderful night
The waxing moon is in a laid back mood
Mice pass through the grass...

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"Tom, Tom the piper's son
Stole a pig and away he run.
The pig was eat,
And Tom was beat,
And Tom went crying down the street."

Now, this rhyme,
For...

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cake 
caramel iced
donut filled 
with custard
    if I was a dog
cake
cream layered 
sugar topped
jam sponge
cake
    this is what I...

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How do you appease a shark?
How do you make him want to leave you alone?
How do you satisfy his sweet tooth
Without giving him blood?

We brainstormed...

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I kissed a gravy 
it was smothered 
on hot mashed potatoes 
seasoned well butter sweet
So as place to fork of the cut steak 
between my...

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mom always put a snail snack into my lunchbox
made of apples, peanut butter, and celery.
The best parts were the eyes; they were chocolate chips.
She never...

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ravish so the hooks unleash
the fish from it's scales as such anchor hoist
 rods and nets overhang the breach deck
gatherings of the bounty fins fish...

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Two weeks before Thanksgiving, I got a jolt,
I was driving my old bucket of nuts and bolts,
along the country road on a chilly autumn day,
Saw...

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I didn't know what to do when the android fell into the river
he wasn't programmed for such eventualities.. neither was I, 
he quickly became cold...

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My first morning task, if you’re like me –
and I don’t see why you wouldn’t be –
is to empty and lighten my body
of all I...

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Gnats, fruitflies, midges, black flies
What do you call them?
I call them pests.
Unwelcome guests
I call them demons from hell.
They fly past my face.
They go for my...

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just the right size
itty bitty
fun size
for an old biddy
with champion choppers
and diabetes...

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O, I'm Popeye the Sailor Man
   Olive tells me I yams what I am
     I likes me spinach in...

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peaches and cream
sure it means a complexion
but could it also just mean
peaches and cream?

I do not know why not, grandma replied
she cut some up and...

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Why do we have to eat anyway?
It’s only a habit we picked up
Long ago when we were babies
Blame it on Mommy
She started it, after all
And...

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