Oh green broad bean, oh green broad bean, you’re really rather small.
Oh green broad bean, oh green broad bean, you’re hardly there at all.
Oh solitary green broad bean, I still like you a lot(ty),
Though you hardly bear comparison to last year’s fine borlotti.
Your skin is wan, your colour’s dull, your seeds just number three,
Your black and speckled blotches are as ugly as can be –
And if I, famished from the day, and ready for to sup,
Picked you to feast upon, why bean, you wouldn’t fill me up!
Yet even with these many faults, upon you I heap praise
And I sing about your glory til the ending of your days.
For in one aspect you stand tall: a bean above all others
And so it is you still remain, far longer than your brothers.
Yes, beany, you’ve escaped the fate their sad short lives curtails;
You haven’t yet been eaten by our many slugs and snails.
P.S. Yes, I probably should get out more…
Wolves in London 
Hehe I very much enjoyed that! We should all honour the modest and delectable Broad Bean! Huzzah!
Oh dear! I’m sure this period will pass and you will re-enter the pre-small baby phase again soon!
Is the “oh dear” for the bad poetry or the bad harvest?!
You are simply hilarious! Bee xx
I love this, it made me smile 🙂 Poor bean…
I enjoyed this too, well done little bean 🙂
You got da skillz! MC Wolvz in London in tha house!
10/10 for rhyming lotty with borlotti – I doff my cap to you you bonkers lady x
What a lonely little bean! Poor thing.
Fabulous ! #hdygg
He is a survivor =P #hdygg
Is it just me or does that bean look like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle but without the eye mask? I think it is laughing at you as well.
Ha! Yes! I see it now too!
LOL – excellent.