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Vegetable Poems - Poems about Vegetable

Premium Member Vegetable Journey
You grew up in the dark and distant loam and were packed in a produce truck to roam, but you've naught to fear of my knife my dear - vegetable, my stomach's your new home....

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Categories: vegetable, food, humor,
Form: Limerick
Vegetable Peelers
Vegetable Peelers There should be schools, colleges, and universities for vegetable peelers who can read and write well. ...

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Categories: vegetable, humor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Vegetable Gargoyles
carved jack-o-lanterns a sentinel of pumpkins vegetable gargoyles an ebony cat a marble gravestone scratchpad feline familiar wolves howl at the moon bat wings whisper in the dark creatures of the night monsters in costume banging on neighborhood doors shouts of trick-or-treat Halloween; conjures the dead; fueling feelings of dread....

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Categories: vegetable, anxiety, celebration, dark, death,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Vegetable
This is a true story Vegetable ! I could read this word. Vegetable ! Because of Mary Lou Redd, Reading Specialist Baltimore Public Schools I was age 10, reading--- Vegetable. Prior to, I added my own words to the printed page. My stories, not Mcgraw-Hill. Mary Lou made magic. Saving children from a lifetime of ignorance, shame and lies. Vegetable! Rememberring my...

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Categories: vegetable, 5th grade, remember, school,
Form: Free verse
New Yam
New Yam Death brings life New, tender and green Earth brown, immaculate white The priest heralds her coming The town crier drums it The farmer dances to the market It's time to celebrate Let loose the masquerades Celestial visitors from yonder Let the melody of the odó Echo the birth of the new yam Like the birth of a newborn The drums are rolled out The market...

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Categories: vegetable, africa, culture,
Form: Free verse



Carolina Reaper
Fruity red pepper burns with the fire of dragons~ Coming and going...

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Categories: vegetable, poetry,
Form: Haiku
A Salad Backstory
I went into the garden on one sunny, lovely day When I was attacked by vegetables in a most aggressive way Every time I turnipped around it seemed that I got beet It kept me on my tomatoes but barely on my feet I asked them to leaf me alone but they couldn't carrot less Lettuce be, they said to...

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Categories: vegetable, fun, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tomatoes
Tangy, sweet, or “just right” Ohs and ahs of sheer delight Makes mouths water at the sight Attacks the tongue with spirit bright Takes a palate to heaven's height Olfactory senses come alight Essentially stirs the appetite Savor the flavor in each bite...

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Categories: vegetable, food, senses, sweet,
Form: Acrostic
Her vegetable vendor
Her vegetable vendor, ‘a nice man’, Known for his wile nor sly, rather for smile, Unaware of his cunning and sly guile, Who proved the point: it pays to please a fan. He was game to bid a round of bargains, For return of tomatoes raw or ripe, Brinjals less brown and onions...

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Categories: vegetable, wife,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member vegetable crazies
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....

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Categories: vegetable, food,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Vegetable soup
Vegetables spell out alphabet from a to z h -healthy eating...

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Categories: vegetable, health,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Vegetable Garden Haiku-
my little garden planted seeds of vegetables blessing them to grow Planning them richly The seeds that I gleaned blossoms Flourishing parting Sprouting green colors Leafy green vegetables planted I water life beams sprouting Earth Standing tall blossoming forth vegetated girt so seeded planted The seeds that I gleaned blossoms vegetable garden 6/28/23 written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2023...

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Categories: vegetable, analogy, appreciation, garden,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member At the Vegetable Pride Parade
Celebrity Carrots shook hands with onlookers Barrel-chested Beets beat their chests like bass drums Soft-spoken Celery Sticks whispered soliloquies Mild-mannered Mushrooms spun themselves silly At the Vegetable Pride Parade ...

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Categories: vegetable, celebration, celebrity, food, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
To Be a Root Vegetable
have you ever wondered what life could be if you never had to sweep another hardwood floor? never had to fold another fitted sheet? i had a dream where i was a carrot; wrapped in loamy love, green leaves slaking their thirst on sunlight. i don't wonder anymore when i close my human eyes, earth worms tickle my orange stomach, & i laugh my new vegetable laugh....

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Categories: vegetable, food, fun,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beautiful Vegetable Pizza
Our newest neighbor is vegan She created a masterpiece pizza Brought it to a barbeque This vegetable pizza was unbelievable It looked like a flower garden Beautiful as a painting by a master None of us ate it We like meat...

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Categories: vegetable, food,
Form: Free verse

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