Short Taters Poems

Mashed Taters

Creamy buttery goodness drenched in thick meaty gravy, yum...

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tenderloins in the oven
butter on a plate
sweet corn on a cob waiting
salt the taters please
kings supper
now...

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Hearty beef stew
Beef bullion fondue
Carrots not a few
Diced taters imbue
Beef chunks to the brew
Salt and pepper to
Accentuate!...

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digesting ballet —
prime rib and bacon, waltzing
Nutcracker taters
Tchaikovsky suite crescendo
fork and knife tenderizing

12/25/2021...

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Fancy foods are not for me
Old fashioned meat and taters are key
Insects are scum
Don't give me none
What's this world coming to tween you and me...

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Bon appetite!
Cheers to you,
Cheers to me!
These taters
So buttery.
Mmmhm,
Indeed.
Hot to the touch
But this rib rack
So tender,
So I'll cut them some slack....

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Bon appetite!
Cheers to you,
Cheers to me!
These taters
So buttery.
Mmmhm,
Indeed.
Hot to the touch
But this rib rack
So tender,
So I'll cut them
Some slack.
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Meat and Taters

I savor meat and taters but tofu and sushi make me barf!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired

Entry for Andrea Dietrich's "Food And Our Memory Connections" Contest...

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Our first freaking snowfall though light in nature
An omen of what's coming, surely much much greater
Yuksie I say to that
What kind of habitat
Are we nuts, have we lost control of our taters...

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Seasoned water brought to boil
Taters and sausage
Ten minute wait then add corn
And pieces of crab
Five minutes then shrimp
Short wait drain
Chow!


3rd Place Win:
For Sara Kendrick's Contest
"Low Country Boil"...

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Chicken fryin' on the stove
Mashed taters whipped up smooth
Corn on the cob all buttered nice
Look here, here comes the crew
Sweet tea in a mason jar
Yeast rolls all pipin' hot
Papa starts the prayer of thanks
Thankful for all that we got...

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man.....grab dos taters

odda won....they hot potatas, day hot potattas!

man.. pick dos mattos

odda won...day hot potttas, day hot potattas!

drums & horns. wook, wook, whirl!

rest o them.... day hot pottatas, day hot pottatas!...

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down to earth whole guy                                                                                          some where lost it the meaning                                                                              urbane needs some help...

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Ida was Idaho's Pertater Queen.

   Her knowledge of taters was really keen!

      Tho' to many she a-'peeled',

         'Neath her gown was concealed,

            Alas, billows of blubber unforeseen!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
(c) All Rights Reserved...

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taters n gravy
taters n gravy
oh how I love
the taters n gravy
taters is white
gravy is brown
I live in Mississippi
in a real little town
some folks is brown
some folks is white
seems like to me
they do nothing but fight
if taters is ok
and gravy makes em good
why can't folks get along
like taters n gravy should...

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J ames said he feels at home here
A nd hasn't felt this good in years
M e, I learned the best remedy
E specially when one is "down" is
S OUP

F or it gets you back on your feet
O nions "taters" and some meat
U feel exonerated
L ike a kid in school 
KQQL
                         ***
no meter,   no rhyme,  just James this time!...

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give me some fried chicken,
as greasy as grease can be;
with fried taters on the side,
who's worried about fat free?!

give me a breast of chicken,
cooked in gran'ma's lard;
make sure that bird's extra crusty,
'cause i like my chicken hard!

bring on the jalapenos,
so hot i can hardly speak;
now tell mama to call my job,
i'll be sick for at least a week!...

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Old Mother Hubbard went to her cupboard and found it bare!

She laughed and said, "Fiddle-dee-dee! What do I care!

I'll jes git some of them food stamps from old Uncle Sam,

And me and my dog will have us a heap of taters and ham!"

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
(c) All Rights Reserved

Hey Soupers!   Join me in having a little fun "parodyzing" nursery rhymes!...

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Laverne a man from Po' Biddy
Raised by himself with no family

Lived off the land and by God's hand
His favorite was turtle soup real bland

One day he drank some toxic moonshine
Then the turtle started talking real fine

Laverne got scared and jumped in the river
He drank like a fish and swole his liver

Laverne could not eat turtle and taters again
He felt it was a real sin to eat talkin' kin...

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no reason no rhyme
nothing but coffee and time
sit in a frozen moment
cruel words i begin to resent
was that a rhyme or am i crazy?
a little nuts, and a little spacey
no rhyme to be found
my mind is coming unwound 
.....frayed taters of a broken mind, start to tangle, while they unwind, seep and drip...to the ground....below swirl and whirl, twirling....as they go....unfocused
and a little 
lost
my sanity
was the 
cost...

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Digging 'taters by headlights
Can be a bit of a trick
Having to feel in the ground for spuds
Becomes the best approach

Headlights makes shadows
Shadows are darkness
Darkness doesn't give much vision

It is a faith of sorts to feel in the dirt
pushing the thought of a snake
or toad out of the back of my mind.
My reward is a creamy fresh potato meal
The ones I dig taste much better
than the ones bought in a store....

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Slang Or common talk
Yay all knows that peoples talk funny 
If yous are from the south.
They cut off the lights and jaw jack alls night long.
If youns need to find something.
We cans find it down the road a piece or maybe over yawner.
So if you think I talk funny or in slang.
You alls need to catch the seconds of taters and grits and pig fat.
You alls come back now you hear.
And yes bring granny and the boys well have a shing dig....

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DIDN'T TELL YOU TO PICK DOS MATERS
AND DIG DOS TATERS
YOU OUT DARE DIGGING THE MATERS
AND PICKIN UP TATERS OFF THE GROUND
STOP YOU FLOOKIN DAFFY DOOTIN
AND PICK DOS MATERS OUT THE PATCH
DOLL-GIFT GOOFIN
WHEN YOU SHOULD BE GROUPIN GREEN MATERS
RED MATERS
GREEN MATER
RED MATERS
GREEN MATERS
YOU TRYIN TO DIG THE MATERS
OUT THE GROUND
GREEN MATER
RED MATER
HOT POT TATER
HOT POT TATERS
YOU TRYIN TO DIG THE MATERS OUT THE GROUND!...

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The best part of the day
is when we get to play
in the kitchen.

Rarin’ to go
hunger is so
deep we’re itchin’

to turn up the heat
whip up the sweet
tangy sauces

While it comes to a boil
pour on the oil
Salad tosses.

Strip outer layers
from tubers and taters
then steam ‘em

Pound the filets
sizzle and braise
to perfection

Juice freshly squeezed
down on our knees
in thanksgiving

Abundantly fed
we head off to bed…
…
…
for dessert……....

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We should stop eating all of these fattening foods.
Turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy at the ready.
But yet, it is Thanksgiving week and they put us in good moods.
You start the potatoes, I‘ll warm the potatoes, I tell Freddy.

We used to buy vegetables, but they always got thrown out.
We are both contenders for serious conditions including gout.
But we like our red meat, our liquor, our taters and our sweets.
We definitely cannot give up bacon, ham, or t-bone beefs....

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