Tasty_poems

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Illustrated by Nick Sharratt

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For Ashok Kachru Pandit, Musema She Hassan Arnold Adoff, "My Mouth" from Eats (Lothrop Lee & Shepard

Yesuf and all ActionAid's children, ©Books, 1979). Arnold Adoff 1979. Reprinted by permission
remembering specially Gultno Aliye - JB
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donated to ActionAid, Hamlyn House, John Agard, "Snow-cone" from / Din Do Nuttin (Bodley
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Head, 1979). Reprinted by kind permission of lohn Agard c/o
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Collected by Jill Bennett
Illustrated by Nick Sharratt

Oxford University Press

Meg's egg

Meg

Likes

A regular egg

Not a poached

Or a fried

But a regular egg
Not a devilled

Or coddled
Or scrambled
Or boiled

But an eggular egg

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Bubble, Bubble Sugarcake
Bubble thick and hot

Sugarcake, Sugarcake
Spice and coconut

Sweet and sticky
Brown and gooey

I could eat the lot.

Grace Nichols

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Taste of purple
Grapes hang purple

In their bunches^
Ready for
September lunches.
Gather them, no
minutes wasting.
Purple is
Delicious tasting.

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Oodles of noodles

I love noodles. Give me oodles.

Make a mound up to the sun.
Noodles are my favourite foodies.

I eat noodles by the ton. \

Lucia & James L. Hymes, Jr.



I like cabbage

I like eating cabbage,
Turnip, beetroot, cress.
Very smelly foreign cheese.
And, best, (you'll never guess)
It isn't chocolate or ice-cream.
No, no, it isn't custard.

My very best, my favourite food.

Is sausages with mustard.

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Snow-cone

Snow-cone nice
Snow-cone sweet
Snow-cone is crush ice
and good for the heat.

When sun really hot

and I thirsty a lot,

Me alone,
Yes me alone,

could eat ten snow-cone.

If you think is lie I tell
wait till you hear the snow-cone bell,
wait till you hear the snow-cone bell.



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Brian's picnic There's . .
jelly next or trifle,
We've . .
everything must go!
cheese rolls, chicken rolls, Quickly, Brian, pass your plate
is it yes or no?
beef rolls, ham;
I WANT A DOUGHNUT!
—choose now, quickly, Brian
LAST CHANCE!
bacon, beans or Spam?
We've . .
I WANT A DOUGHNUT! sponge cake, fruit cake,
eat it any way!
We've . . Peanut butter, best rump steak
egg and cress and sausages, what is that you say?
good old lettuce leaf;
I WANT A DOUGHNUT!
come on, Brian, take some now
Judith Nicholls
there's turkey, tuna, beef . .

I WANT A DOUGHNUT!

We've . .
treacle tart and apple tart,

—biscuits, blackberries, cake

Take which one you feel like,

Brian, come along now, take!

I WANT A DOUGHNUT!



The wobbling race
Two jellies had a wobbling race
To see who was the wibbliest.
Then the sun came out and melted them
And made them both the dribbliest.

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Have a mango

Have a mango

sweet rainwashed

sunripe mango

that the birds
themselves

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if only they

—had seen it

a rosy miracle

Here
take it from mih hand.

Grace Nichols

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Popalong hopcorn!

I'm a hopalong
popalong

popcorn in the pan

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Sugarcake, popcorn, peanut butter, snow-cones,
biscuits, sausages, wobbling jellies, and oodles of

—noodles all delicious to taste, delicious to eat, and

delicious to read.

Here's a mouth-watering selection of tasty poems by
the same team that gave you Noisy Poems,
People Poems, and Machine Poems.

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