Donald Pleasence
won’t eat pheasants
now he’s dead;
and, when alive, he was a Vegan,
so he ate beans instead –
I may have made that up,
it’s the sort of thing I do,
I’m a writer, and a poet,
and a singer,
‘How d’you do?’
The vegetables
sat at tables,
whilst the fruits
played their flutes;
when over,
the vegetables gave them a round of applause,
and the fruits bowed low.
The evening was a total success,
and there was very little mess –
which was nice to know.
Would you like…
a Butterbean Barley Buddha Bowl?
I’d like to be able to say it.
There’s a lady on the seashore, she sells them.
That figures.
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My Vegan Poem
contains no owls
or cormorants;
but, it does contain vowels
and consonants –
it would look rather silly
with owls and cormorants in,
wouldn’t it?
When there is one last fish in an ocean,
One last cow in a field;
will the people then have a notion,
that the cost was worth more than the yield.
When there are no more Dodos in Tesco;
when a shamb shank is all that they sell;
when your mixed-up grill,
is just a mixed-up girl,
packing your biscuits in twos –
Singing:
‘and the animals went
in two-by-twos…
… and there were none of them left in the morning’.
For plant-based food, that hits the spot,
try Kind in Looe, you’ll like what they’ve got.
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Tagged #Couplet, #notahaiku, #PlantBased, #poetry. #poem, #Vegan, #Vegetarian, @KindCafeLooe
We received our Vegan wake-up
call in the post just yesterday;
now we use Vegan soap and Vegan make up
all the day;
our food habits have drastically changed,
our ideals have been totally rearranged;
we are not the people that once we were;
we don’t eat animals, we don’t wear fur,
our shoes are made of recycled plants;
and we don’t talk about it,
if given half a chance.
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