Short Turnip Poems

she buys a turnip
even though it's too hard to eat
with her new false teeth 
...

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healthy turnip greens
fall's bountiful garden reaped...
live lady bug floats ...

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SERVED ON SUNDAY

Buttery ham spicy-sweet.
Juices coalesce
greens - okra, collard, turnip
with splash of hot sauce.
A plate of cornbread
and sweet tea,
y’all!

4/28/2019...

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A is for delicious Apples 
U is being Unique 
T is for tasty Turnip 
U is playing your Ukulele 
M is for foggy early Mornings 
N is for Nice Autumn Weather.

Happy Autumn Everyone!!!...

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The square root of sixteen is four
The veg root of turnip is swede
The tooth root of dentist is pain
The route we must take is misspelled
The root of each line is a "the"



3rd January 2017...

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At the mere mention of a turnip, people go yuck
I love 'em, it's a delicacy, I can't get enough
Love a bowl full
Not pulling the wool
Over anyone's eyes, but convincing would be tough...

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In the market, place there are substitutes for diverse foods to be ate
Cracker Barrel grits post toastee salmon fish chocolate-covered moose made out of hot dogs and turnip greens and desert frogs and marsh mush taking out of the hollow logs...

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pricot and plums;
are they served in fruit salad;
citrus to me so
~
melon-choly bowl;
filled with collar turnip green;
fruit cocktail salad;
~
urban session dreads;
drenched in hot sauce Red Devil;
 ranch dressing salad?

...

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COMSAT move
that rabbit
drone a
little to
your

right 
visual
should
now be
in sight

turnip 
greens
and kale
advance
cautiously

four 
hops
over

over
copy
that

a few more
hops to the
left forget
about that
clover over


dead

air...

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Old sour dour turnip man
He ruins as many parties as he can
Coming in with a meanness thick
Not liking any dances, joys or tricks

We see him coming and try to lock the door
We do not want to entertain him any more.
Old sour dour turnip man
Being as irritating and grumpy as he can...

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Constipated onions
Immaculate cantaloupe
 Collard, mustard, turnip greens
 crabgrass eating artichoke distant 
Are the carrots potatoes fried display?
But the watermelon 
Praise on the tomato mustard says
We be going to have ketchup today 

6/17/ 24
 written words by James Edward Lee Sr....

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Mary Skit was full of hot air
                                             She was a balloon to be fair
                                                      She ate turnip
                                                 Checked her burn up
                                        And swooshed to the sky body bare...

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 small caterpillar;
eating up plants in garden;
rabbit hips and hops;
~
he to also wants;
to bite the different types;
vegetables plants;
~
tomatoes green beans;
pinto beans, cauliflower;
mustard, turnip greens;
~
yes! he to is awe;
all them there vegetables;
festive garden feast;
7/30/23
written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2023...

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older still is blue than green.

 born to late by the spin told doctor
whose cobweb logic holds a few 
 silk cocoon secrets.

re-entry of the womb...

 with a little scattered potters soil.

 seperation of all rooting 
tomorrows.

yet older still is the turnip fist than 
the bloody knuckle.

 scibbled names on rocks 
who cannot remember. 

yet older still is truth than reason.....

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The
Pyramid
Of purple topped
Turnips takes me instantly
Into the memory of lifetime past
In which a brutal winter's cold caused
Such scarcity that purple-topped turnips were
All the children had to eat for breakfast lunch dinner.

Father cursed, Mother wept, Sister died, but the turnip winter showed no sympathy; nature does not care about men, war, or famine.
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The gunfire rages
through the cracks
of neighborhood cages
as every fetid tenement ages
and voodoo economics suppress wages
of waitresses, cabbies and sages...

while the slick-shoe alderman engages
in taxing your turnip-blood in stages
and blue-jeaned billionaires decry outrages
of clothes-hanger abortions back-stages
and gang-banger rampages --
as this feckless dog-and-pony upstages
detonated death's tick-tock gauges

-...

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Release Me...
locked into a spin
no where to begin
lest to affect the robotic pass
give a good kick in the ass...

locked inside an oceanic groove
shades of grass out of peoples field
release me...
the coach in your backyard;

Supporter in coats invasion
a daily supporter
Facebook even check full force in effect
release me...

stand out man goes ahead of you
turnip on toast to build you
release me...
belief on Twitter...

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Blackeyes and turnip greens on New Year's day.
   That's what we should eat, or so they say.
With pork chops or ham hocks glazed with honey.
   Eating all this is supposed to bring you money.
     
This is tradition in the South where I live,
   to eat such a meal, but this secret I give.
If you're eating this meal to gain riches untold.
   Then my friend I'll confess, while waiting you'll grow old!


For Russell Sivey's Good Luck Meal contest...

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mint
a green thumb
the green-eyed monster
as sure as God’s green apples
they gave my plan a green light
green around the gills
a green back
jade

teal
village green
golf course - putting green
the hanging of Christmas greens
a sergeant wears his dress greens
why does brass turn green?
turnip greens
lime

moss
green bananas
greenhorns are naive
greenware has not yet been fired
what is the greenhouse effect?
he lost his green card
greengrocers
pine...

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Mr TURNIP AND Ms AUBERGINE
                             
                              Mr Turnip was on a aubergine-free diet
                                Ms. Aubergine on a Turnip-free quiet
                                          Both were on a stroll
                                        And Opened their scroll
                             Sold turnips and aubergines to Hotel Hyatt











© RAJAT KANTI CHAKRABARTY
14 OCTOBER, 2014...

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The lowly turnip
Earthy, fleshy
Roots falling from its eyes
Fed to  livestock
One of God’s root crops
Yet deemed  untasty
By most palates 

Carrots and potatoes
Receive accolades
Carrots in orange party dress
So crunchy and sweet 
Fit in the school child’s lunch box
Potatoes in russet  brown
Mashed, fried and frittered
Prized alongside McDonalds and Kentucky Fried

Do not despair, my friend, 
Not all root crops
Are valued similarly
Said the rutabaga disparagingly...

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Monkey and Donkeys Tea.

Go ask the monkey what's for tea
and donkey, what he likes to drink?

Narna's on bread with red juice, donkey said
you'll find it all by the sink.
with apples and carrots, turnip and swede
that's all we have, I think.

That's good enough for me
as for the monkey, well there's no need to fuss
for monkey is greedy he's fat and cheeky
and behaves rather naughty you see
What ever you make the monkey will take
as he eats just the same things as me.
Ea-haw!...

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There was once a little Jack ‘o’ lantern
Who despite trying his best
Was always getting picked on
Because he was different from the rest
He was a different color you see
And he stood out in a crowd
But it was the fact that he was different
That made him so very proud
So he rose above the taunts and bullying
Ignored the pumpkin's lip
And at Halloween was crowned
The pumpkin king
Despite him being a turnip

For the contest 'Everything Halloween'...

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