Poetry list
Resentment
I may be green and vegetable
But I still have feelings
Whether I’m related to a mandrake
I just don’t know but
I do shriek and it’s with outrage
How dare a global star of the garden
Be cut down – and then be boiled
Yes boiled
I am choked to the core at this assault
By the appetites of bon viveurs –
And they’re only dining on the fringe
Whilst taking down my metre high head
Crowned and swaying in majesty
I’m better than this for starters
Keep away you predatory jaws
And your accomplices butter and lemon
Yes
How dare you
You’ll pay for this –
My thistly cousin promises me
Nemo me impune lacessit
A challenge to write 2 poems about
artichoke and resentment
refectory table and trivia
© Neil Thompson 2024