Short Vittles Poems

There once was a prolific chef named Stu,

   Who whipped up vittles for a Navy crew.

      He was aptly named,

         And was also famed,

            For concocting a most sumptuous stew.

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired...

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Happy birthday to a tot on her one-eth
Most times its best to not know what cometh.
But it has been said by prophets, forsooth:
Surely you'll have more teeth on your twoth
Oh glory to vittles masticatable
You'll be glad to eschew the unchewable....

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Just “Gimmie” a Casserole
By: Tom
12-2-2019

I could never be thought of as bon vivant guy,
I prefer plain “vittles” that will stick to a rib.
Most fancy dishes I allow to pass my plate by,
and I never eat things that require a bib.
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Feed me, Love Me

My life’s in constant turmoil,
Everything tastes like fish.
Friskies, Tender Vittles and Purina
It all goes in my dish.

All I want is to be pet,
And to play with a mouse or two.
I wait for you to come back home,
What else is there to do?

But I am a patient little kitty,
Just look into my big bright eyes.
My love I’ll freely give to you,
Life’s perfect, golden prize....

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We're the class of sweet '16! We're not tender vittles... we're Skittles! We're shooting Starbursts, reaching for the Milky Way. We aren't always Nerds-- we can be Airheads, too! :) We're on top of the world, even if we get the occasional Snickers! We may have to Crunch down on time once in a while, but you don't have to be the Three Musketeers to have Mounds of fun and Almond Joy! We do get the Snickers sometimes, huh? 







*snicker...

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DENTED CAN

kicking it down
an old dusty road
mind chasing dogs

a type of relay race
legs release, next guy
kicks the bone

no wonder of what
sup was spooned
nor if a homeless man

kicked the can
did the dent do him in
were the vittles spoilt

man’s worst abuse
human, beast or
aluminum can

a drunk picks it up
toothless, smiles
crushing it

against his skull
the derelicts say
“aw, you ruined it”

1/3/2018...

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Peristalic pangs percolate
rumbling grumbling groans of,
"Feed me!  Feed me!"

Chocolate chomping 
does not curtail the hollow hollering,
"Real food!  Real food!"

A clock controls the
dashing diner of
lunch munch, breakfast break,
or dinner for a spinner
out of this humongous hunger.

A platinum plate if you please
piled provocatively
with a sprawling spread
of vital vittles ASAP.

Ring the bell
grant grace sublime
its time to eat
enough of this rhyme!!...

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A mild spell in winter.
Groundhogs have escaped from their slow dreams.
The hedgerow confirms,
their wide-hipped shuffling as they grub for vittles.

Evening brings one whistle pig to February lawns.
Yet the snow will return, the whimper in the breeze,
will resurrect itself as a howl.

Hey, back to sleep mother groundhog!
Keep the den warm,
small blind eyes are already sensing,
a home in your womb.

Go back and dream of juicy garden carrots -
munchable mouthfuls of daffodils....

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