Promptly Poetry

Bubble and Squeak

Bubble and Squeak

The best thing with leftovers
from Newcastle to Dover
is named bubble and squeak,
it fills yer tum and yer cheek.

Mashed taters from dinner
(it won’t make yer thinner)
and boiled cabbage too,
fried in a pan, then you’re thru.

Whatever else you can find
throw it in, you won’t mind,
onions and carrots, all will avail,
some (strangely) use kale.

For breakfast there’s no finer thing
the frying bubbles, they do sing
while the cabbages can squeak
and mouths be too full to speak.


Line count: 16
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For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 51 2023
Prompt: Leftovers.