"courgette" poems - Hello Poetry

Impulse buys and crap meat pies, crispy snacks and cans Fast food bags, discarded **** all chucked from sweaty hands Into bushes, roadside drops or tossed from speeding cars Consume and lob, “it’s not my prob” junk stuffed from fist to gob Foods that **** eat our streets, Mother nature’s ****** Disrespectful, scant regard, her beauty hid amidst A correlation, may I address... littering to health Or on a controversial note, worst areas lack in wealth Discarded dreams, stretched at the seams Life’s stitching’s come undone Scratch paper hopers, ciggy smokers Our streets are overrun Deadly habits, toxic foods, mainly line our streets Left for volunteers to pick, a never-ending feat Healthy trash? Avocado smash? Imagine streets adorn Kale and spinach everywhere We wade through piles of corn “There’s ****** carrots are everywhere, why don’t they use the bin” “That courgette’s dropped right next to it, why not just put it in?” Coastal towns with plastic seas, wildlife getting sick All tangled, trapped in Ghost nets like a phantom sailors’ trick Above the ground to the depths below the litter never ends Poor old Mother Earth, being driven round the bend So how do we control this? Education is the answer? Let’s all work to turn it round for Generation Alpha The new emerging vibrant minds, absorbing like a sponge The lessons passed on down to them, by loving Dads & Mums A shift in thinking is afoot, I feel it in my bones Let’s join as one community, it starts within our homes.

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Jun 13, 2018

Jun 13, 2018 at 1:52 PM UTC

ScottyReynolds

Litter- A Perplexed Pickers Poem

Impulse buys and crap meat pies, crispy snacks and cans Fast food bags, discarded **** all chucked from sweaty hands Into bushes, roadside drops or tossed from speeding cars Consume and lob, “it’s not my prob” junk stuffed from fist to gob Foods that **** eat our streets, Mother nature’s ****** Disrespectful, scant regard, her beauty hid amidst A correlation, may I address... littering to health Or on a controversial note, worst areas lack in wealth Discarded dreams, stretched at the seams Life’s stitching’s come undone Scratch paper hopers, ciggy smokers Our streets are overrun Deadly habits, toxic foods, mainly line our streets Left for volunteers to pick, a never-ending feat Healthy trash? Avocado smash? Imagine streets adorn Kale and spinach everywhere We wade through piles of corn “There’s ****** carrots are everywhere, why don’t they use the bin” “That courgette’s dropped right next to it, why not just put it in?” Coastal towns with plastic seas, wildlife getting sick All tangled, trapped in Ghost nets like a phantom sailors’ trick Above the ground to the depths below the litter never ends Poor old Mother Earth, being driven round the bend So how do we control this? Education is the answer? Let’s all work to turn it round for Generation Alpha The new emerging vibrant minds, absorbing like a sponge The lessons passed on down to them, by loving Dads & Mums A shift in thinking is afoot, I feel it in my bones Let’s join as one community, it starts within our homes.

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What's in a name? I know, that question's passé and lame But, really, what is in a name? Zucchini and courgette, are they not the same? What's in this fruit's call to fame? What's in a name?

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Oct 10, 2020

Oct 10, 2020 at 9:08 PM UTC

NovicePoet03

Zucchini or Courgette?

What's in a name? I know, that question's passé and lame But, really, what is in a name? Zucchini and courgette, are they not the same? What's in this fruit's call to fame? What's in a name?

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Forget the Baguette, Slumber, in the arms of a Cucumber. Never doubt the Sprout. Don't be mean to the bean. Make drama, when peeling a Banana. Use a heron, to squeeze Your lemon. Feed a grape, to that ape. Carve a kiwi into a kiwi. Stare at at pear. Pretend a spring onion, Is a bunion, but! Don't leave it In your sock. Do the tango, with a mango. Make mashed potato, look like a chateau. Excite a parrot, With a carrot. Is that pea, a she or a he? Whatever! Have tea with that pea, in a teepee. Make rice mice. Don't make a scene, with an aubergine. Take that courgette, to the vet. Visit the planet, that looks like a pomegranate. Dye your boot, with beetroot. Take the lead, when planting your seed. Drink sherry with a berry. See, with glasses made of brocoli. A horse with dapple, loves an apple. Don't play dumb, with a plum.

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Aug 1, 2025

Aug 1, 2025 at 5:07 AM UTC

Nick-Moore

Food for thought

Forget the Baguette, Slumber, in the arms of a Cucumber. Never doubt the Sprout. Don't be mean to the bean. Make drama, when peeling a Banana. Use a heron, to squeeze Your lemon. Feed a grape, to that ape. Carve a kiwi into a kiwi. Stare at at pear. Pretend a spring onion, Is a bunion, but! Don't leave it In your sock. Do the tango, with a mango. Make mashed potato, look like a chateau. Excite a parrot, With a carrot. Is that pea, a she or a he? Whatever! Have tea with that pea, in a teepee. Make rice mice. Don't make a scene, with an aubergine. Take that courgette, to the vet. Visit the planet, that looks like a pomegranate. Dye your boot, with beetroot. Take the lead, when planting your seed. Drink sherry with a berry. See, with glasses made of brocoli. A horse with dapple, loves an apple. Don't play dumb, with a plum.

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