Short Turnips Poems

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

Read More

the car you sold my wifes junk

proof you need just check the trunk

apples turnips pear

pollute nose and air

to the lake alas its sunk....

Read More

When Farmer Brown’s daughter grew busty,
The men pulling turnips grew lusty.
Brown then had to choose
Which shotgun to use
If one of those hands proved untrusty....

Read More

It is warmer

In Paris 
They talk about
The weather
Eat frugally 
Hamburgers made of 
Indian cows
Turnips from Sweden 
Potatoes
From Holland 
Gobbledegook
And sign on
The dotted line....

Read More

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...

Read More

Some are adventuresome, some are weenies
Mostly I'll try a delicacy of another species
But the head of an animal
Staring at me quite affable
Somehow doesn't appeal like turnips or zucchinis...

Read More

I lined up the vegetable crazies onto a dinner plate.
They stuck out their tongues, their tummies were great.
With scrunched up faces, I wondered if they knew their fate.
Eight gnarled up turnips lying on a flat dinner plate....

Read More

Road trip anyone? The neighbors were startled that day.
Some of them hid under turnips, others simply ran away.
We knew this duo was crazy, but we do not even know them.
Have heard though that they do everything on a prayer and a whim....

Read More

I CRUMBLED YOUR LEAVES
WITH GLOVED HANDS
AND MIXED THE RESIDUE WITH SAND
I PLANTED MY COLLARDS AND KALE
MY TURNIPS AND HORSRADISHES
SOME WERE IN THE PALE
I CRUMBLED YOUR PRETTY LEAVES
SO THAT THEY MIGHT NURISH MY PLANTS
COMPSOE IN THESE SANDS
FOOD FOR MY PLANTS!...

Read More

Showtime
Spontaneous combustion
Wow turnips in spring
Evolving
New leaf on life
Fall covers my eyes
My mind is blinded I cannot see
It's showtime
Everything's burning up
End of time
Humanities extinct

1/31/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2022...

Read More

My daughters came today
But did not come to play
They came for a working stay

Prepared for them 
A delicious lunch
Turnips by the bunch

Corn bread in the pan
Bar-be-que ribs to beat the ban
Ice tea Southern style

All these goods
Suit our smiles
What can I say

Oh this was a glorious day...

Read More

Gnirps, Syrups and Turnips

Guess what Gnirps are or is?

Two gnus had meet two gnirps
Had burps and tried many syrups
By time problem was final solved;
Eat no more gnirps they resolved;
Found success after eating turnips.

Jim Horn

Gnarrs and gnarls came up
for gnirps. Have you figured 
out gnirps are yet?...

Read More

The first sprouts
unfurl from their hollows

Sniffing the air
Checking for the sweet scent

Of springtime—
Have the turnips

Turned down their
Brown beds? Creased

The topsheet of soil?
Even the dead bell

Ruffles its feathers
Shaking the silvered dew of

Cold mornings off and 
Lets out a note

So pure and confident
Even the slim bears

Stir in their sleep.
...

Read More

Meenie was clamoring against higher prices of milk
                         My Sullivan hit a clinker he was not of that ilk
                                        Sullivan screeched a lot
                                        My Meenie shot her bolt
                        And both in revolt ate turnips artichokes and silk




Meenie= my pet female cat
Sullivan=my pet simian ghost...

Read More

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.
...

Read More

If you cross your eyes like that
They will stay weird forever.
If you make fun of people
You won’t get Christmas gifts
If you step on a sidewalk crack
you will break your mother’s back
If you laugh at others,
you will lose your voice
If you crack your knuckles
they will turn hard as turnips
If you lie your nose will get longer
If you stay in the sun too long, you will get cancer
Okay, we might have gotten one right....

Read More

 heartbreak pins and needles it runs in the family
Treehouse turnips in the spring heartbreak it runs in the family
Spring heartbreak terracotta prickly pears
It runs in the family heartbreak spring runs into fall fall turns to Winter
Come on and come all it runs in the family pins and needles
And just over the Horizon the Great Plains it runs in the family 

10/23/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr...

Read More

In poverty's desperation
She finds the old organ
Where it's stored under the stair.

It belongs to the man who is gone
Leaving her and his children alone,
This cold winter turned into despair.

Frozen air surrounds her,
As she grinds out the tunes
Almost alone on the street.

The warmth of windows watch her,
Their families safely ensconced
As she trudges home.

She knows
Her children will eat only turnips 
again....

Read More

No Supper

Round as a planet, dark as the galaxy
the interior looked like the last battle in Verdun
the early spring of 1914.
It had been a healthy preparation of carrots, beans
turnips, potatoes and meat.
Scorched earth tactic nothing was salvageable.
There had been warnings but human insouciance
ignored the smell emitting filling rooms 
with the bitterness of a failed supper.
The last question is, can the frying pan be saved?...

Read More

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...

Read More