Rashers Poems


Premium MemberBacon Balls - risque

...When I was only ten years old, I yelled at my TV
For I could not believe the filth they played to kids like me
Right there upon my TV screen, a frog with skin of green
Was lusted after by a pig wh...
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Categories: rashers, song,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberWeekend Memory

...Late 1940s England

the square
   was packed
& the high street full
meat&veg seemed plentiful

market barkers
  drew the queues
with jokes
         impromptu

shoppers filed
     neat& f...
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Categories: rashers, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberOn the Farm

...I wake up at five each morning, I hear cock a doodle doo
my stomach’s gurgling but I won’t eat until I'm through;
as the horses need feeding on hay and crunchy  car...
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Categories: rashers, farm, work,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMarket Day

...the square
   was packed
& the high street full
meat&veg seemed plentiful

market barkers
  drew the queues
with jokes
         impromptu

shoppers filed
     neat& formal
in sainsburys g...
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Categories: rashers, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

Evening Fry

...A priest once told me that the lump
on my hand was a ganglion,
a fortress of fat besieged by health.
At last it burst and the hand swelled
like an old man's,
shovel shaped and splayed.

It was...
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Categories: rashers, food, friendship, loss, memory,
Form: Elegy


Premium MemberJacob's Ladder

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The news out Armageddon is upon us and it’s time for all of us to go 
The world's armies have all gathered and they are putting on a show

Heaven is calling and everyone wants to know just where...
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Categories: rashers, humorous, write,
Form: Epic

Five Fat Porkers

...Five fat Porkers

Five fat Porkers, in a Pig Sty
Eating Swill and Cabbages,
Grunting with a me oh my.

One of these Pigs called Emily,
Was taken out one day,
Now delicious rashers of Bacon,
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Categories: rashers, animal, food, humorous, nursery
Form: Rhyme

Billy the Penguin Adds Insult To Injury

...Billy the penguin went to the dentist 
because he didn't take care of his teeth, 
All brown and yellow like a fungal growth on your feet! 
Billy was always snappy and chatty, 
he loved to interru...
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Categories: rashers, absence, funny, goodbye, health,
Form: Rhyme

Well Now Then

...A template swap is a switch over to a swimming sword. Swordfish are very pleased at this and dunk their noses into goblets in a godlike fashion. Such etiquette in a swim. Formational framework finds ...
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Categories: rashers, baseball,
Form: I do not know?
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