A Vegetable Medley — Healthy and Good for Senryu

Summary

The website content is a creative compilation of senryu verses celebrating a variety of vegetables, inspired by a haiku challenge, and includes a personal backstory and a link to a related story.

Abstract

The web content presents a series of 13 senryu poems under the title "A Vegetable Medley — Healthy and Good for Senryu," which humorously and appreciatively reflects on different vegetables. The author, responding to a challenge by Lucy The Eggcademic, incorporates a wide range of vegetables into the verses, from cabbage and carrots to sweet potatoes and tomatoes, expressing personal preferences and aversions, such as an aversion to cabbage due to its gassy effects and a preference for leeks over onions. The poems are accompanied by an image of vegetables and a figcaption crediting ikon on Pixabay. The backstory reveals the author's initial hesitation and subsequent inspiration to include many vegetables after facing thunderstorms and power outages. The author also provides a link to another vegetable-related story, inviting readers to enjoy more content on the theme.

Opinions

The author enjoys grated carrots as a healthy salad side dish and is grateful for them.
Sweet potatoes roasted with olive oil and rosemary are favored by the author, especially when left in their skins.
Tomatoes are considered divine by the author, despite being scientifically classified as fruit.
The author prefers leeks to onions for flavor because onions make them cry.
Garlic and ginger are seen as essential kitchen ingredients that are very good for health.
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But I only eat what I like

Image by ikon on Pixabay

I don’t eat cabbage Creates intestinal gas Have to set it free

Love grated carrots A healthy salad side dish For which I’m grateful

Roast sweet potatoes Olive oil and rosemary Leave them in their skins

Tomatoes are divine Scientifically a fruit I don’t give a toot

Cauliflower cheese Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding British Sunday meal

Garlic and ginger Essential in the kitchen Very good for you

Red and green peppers Liven up a casserole On a winter’s night

I don’t do onions I’ll stick with leeks for flavor They don’t make me cry

Peas and butternut Brighten up my evening meal Green and orange hues

Kale and other leaves Swiss chard and spinach thrill me Health enhancing food

Brussel sprouts are out Same family as cabbage No, you can’t fool me

Green beans and beetroot Parsnips, celery, courgettes So many choices

The list is endless Let’s rejoice in Earth’s bounty And eat our veggies!

Poetry

A Vegetable Medley — Healthy and Good for Senryu

But I only eat what I like

Backstory

With Earth Under My Fingernails I Am Complete

In nature I am one with the universe