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Portobello Poems - Poems about Portobello

Mellow Musings

...I’ve never really seen a toad
    sitting on a toadstool.
A cheating mushroom farmer
    has bad morel character.
I wonder what your life is like
    if that’s what you call fun, gus?
Edible, y...

Categories: portobello, nonsense, silly,
Form: Light Verse

Storm On the Spanish Main

...Out upon the Spanish Main it roared
The storm reached out its cold hands to catch
Crashing waves they beat against the board
Quickly now they battened every hatch

Spray and wind groaned, lashin...

Categories: portobello, sea, storm,
Form: Quatrain

Henry Morgan the Privateer

...Henry Morgan was an admiral of the Royal Navy
In his time, commissioned, but most found him crazy
Such that the Spanish called him a pirate rebellious
Whilst he considered himself with the truth n...

Categories: portobello, betrayal, character, conflict, courage,
Form: Rubaiyat

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Sir Henry Morgan

... 
Sir Henry Morgan was a privateer,
And a ruthless, mean buccaneer;
Considered a pirate by the Spanish,
He became, in time a millionaire.

Henry was born in Wales to a farmer,
Gain...

Categories: portobello, history,
Form: Rubaiyat

Dining Out

...Tonight my wife proclaimed, "My dear, we are dining out!"
I said, "Fine!  How about steak and taters or rainbow trout?"
"No" she insisted, "I want an exotic Italian dish!"
Alas, I lost another tet...

Categories: portobello, food, funny,
Form: Rhyme

Range

...Born of manure
Elysium in a bowl
Portobello bisque


By Robb A. Kopp...

Categories: portobello, food
Form: Senryu

English Breakfast

...Some real pork sausages
wild boar pancetta
flat portobello mushrooms
Bury's black pudding
organic fried egg
toast and tea
Please!...

Categories: portobello, food, places
Form: Epulaeryu

Summer On a Plate

...portobello mushroom soup
tracle cured salmon
asparagas and poached egg
runner bean chutney
gooseberry cobbler
ginger beer
Cheer !...

Categories: portobello, food, seasons
Form: Epulaeryu

Bella Monica

...He nods towards a table between the hibiscus
and other flowering plants,
a bit more removed from the racket of passing cars, 
the tiny music of forks tapping porcelain dinner plates.

Her eyes s...

Categories: portobello,
Form: Free verse