When Tomorrow Comes, Eat Carrots

Happy Random Passage of Time Holiday.   Just in case you made a New Year's resolution to eat more carrots, here are some helpful rhymes to inspire you.

At the Poetry Table, Younger Daughter wrote a limerickish ode to The Carrot. 

Carrot Limerick

A carrot grows in the ground,

And its meaning is not profound,

But it’s so very crunchy

And deliciously munchy

You’d always like one to be found.

This is not the only time our family has written hagiographically of the carrot.  Here are the results of a writing challenge in March 2012.  Please keep in mind that writing challenges are unpolished, and therefore the rhyme or meter may be a bit raw.  But raw is okay with carrots.

Challenge: Write a song about a carrot. 

Writer 1 wrote:

People, Look West

(to the tune of “People Look East,” a hymn)

Oh, Carrot, you are fine and green,

But only on your leafy sheen;

Beneath that you are bright and orange

And now I will eat you so I can flourish.

Refrain:

People look west and sing today.

Love the carrots are on the way!

I’ll chop you up and make some stew,

Or maybe I’ll just eat you

Raw without dressing, or maybe

I’ll put you in a chicken with gravy.

Refrain:

People look west and sing today.

Love the carrots are on the way!

Best choice of all is salad bowl,

Lettuce, carrots, I’m on a roll;

Celery, too, all put together,

Ready to eat it in all kinds of weather.

Refrain:

People look west and sing today.

Love the carrots are on the way!

Writer 2 wrote:

The regal, rootful carrot

Is a vegetable sublime.

Its orange root is tasty;

We’ll eat it anytime!

A carrot can be eaten

If washed and yet left raw

Or if you like, you cook it,

So it’s easier on your jaw.

It can be used in salads

Or Tsimmes (it’s Jewish)

But in a cake’s our favorite.

The carrot is delish.

Writer 3 wrote:

 (To the tune “Do You Hear the People Sing” from the musical “Les Miserables”)

Do you see the carrots grow

Sprouting their vitamin-rich roots

Careful when you walk around outside

Don’t crush them with your boots

Do you smell the healthy air

Say do you heard the kettle drums

We will be eating carrot soup

When tomorrow comes!

Will you help me till the soil

Who will stay strong and stand with me

We don’t want them all to spoil

For we want carrots to be

As orangey orange as carrots could possibly be

Do you see the carrots grow

Sprouting their vitamin-rich roots

Careful when you walk around outside

Don’t crush them with your boots

Do you smell the healthy air

Say do you heard the kettle drums

We will be eating carrot soup

When tomorrow comes!