Tomato Ketchup Poems | Examples


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My Cunning Plan

My mother was spring cleaning 
So I needed a reason to escape 
I have got a devilish mind 
and my cunning plan is taking shape.
The plug has fallen off the hoover 
I've unscrewed the head from the sweeping brush 
A little superglue on the furniture polish 
and the button will not push .
Tomato ketchup on my white sock 
I've trodden on a nail 
Link that my acting
and my cunning plan can't fail 
but mothers know when something is fishy 
She gave me that look that doesn't need to speak
I lost use of my computer 
and got grounded for a week.

Premium Member The Abominable Snowman

THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN

it started out white
but the late snow was weeks old.
results were a fright –
those red pepper lips, corn teeth,
tomato ketchup eyes,

the tire-track forehead,
the oil and grit in his cheeks –
my roadside snowman.
and those dried apricot ears
been in the pantry for years

abominable! –
chest a tattered cardboard box, 
gloves were threadbare sox
on discarded broomstick arms –
my roadside snowman

save demise for last –
the tall, wide-brimmed plastic hat
was what did him in.
when the morning sun came out 
just everything went flat

what a sorry sight
that vegetable salad
in a muddy drool,
with young springtime’s merry sun
the ruin of late winter’s fun

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