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Best Food Poems

Below are the all-time best Food poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of food poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Food Inglorious Food
Be it known as convenience food, junk food or munchies;
whether spicy, melt-in-your-mouth soft, or crunchy,
food, inglorious food, seduces with ease
and ensnares with the emptiest of...

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Categories: food,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Food For Thought - With Chris Green
Lyrics start 0.05 - timed to the music

Pack your bags dear, there’s a Croc near
And he’s creeping, through the night
With his eye on - on...

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Categories: food, health, scary,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Just Desserts
I was at my favorite restaurant and I'd had a lovely meal,
if I finished all my food then a pudding was the deal
I’d relished every...

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Categories: food, funny, humorous, rude,
Form: Rhyme
If You Weren'T Such a Nut Meg
She had so many chances
     Yet she kept muffin it up
Butter intentions were good
     Just not much...

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Categories: food, fun, humor, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nana's Hands
Through the years they worked their spells
     From drawers and cupboards, taking things
       That through...

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Categories: appreciation, food, grandchild, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member - Creamy Chicken Soup -
     When it's soup season on Poetry Soup
     Ingredients are in large selection
    ...

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Categories: food, humor, together,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Pointing To the Problems
POINTING TO THE PROBLEMS 
  {Bivouacs}

Beat down with legal fees
Tied up with taxes;
Tripped up with mortgages;
Ripped off with student loans
Insulted with insurance
Telephone updates.

Out of...

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Categories: food, earth day, emotions, fish,
Form: Free verse
Poem Ingredients
Many ingredients bake writing inspiration.
This recipe combines a stirring sensation:  

Heaps of desires never realized
as marinated in teary sore eyes;
Quantities of wide open spaces
caramelized...

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Categories: desire, food, how i
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thank You For This Bounty, God
Thank you for this bounty, God
that you give to me
for grain that grows within the field
and fruit upon the tree
Thank you for the little seeds
that...

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Categories: faith, food, thank you
Form: Lyric
Premium Member I Got a Letter From the Devil
(Hello, my sweet friend!)

Speaks in unknown tongues 
Nevertheless it will consume
Ask for food, 
A sweet drink 
The hunger and thirst are real
It's pitchfork aims at...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: food, anger, anxiety, character, dark,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Date Night (And the Day After)
Opening line from "Highway Five Love Poem" by Ruth L. Schwartz


This is a love poem for all the tomatoes
I squished to make our Date-Night spaghetti.
Our...

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© Erin Moss  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: food, lost love, sad,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member One Disastrous Dessert - For Contest
One ice cream sundae
Swirled with whipped cream and a cherry on the top
Sitting temptingly in a tall glass
But you were out of reach
I could see...

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Categories: food, longing,
Form: Free verse
Share Not
When I go out to dinner,
I do not want to share.
I don’t care what is on your plate;
I don’t want to compare.

I scan the menu...

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Categories: food, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Footling Around In the Kitchen
Adventurous Asparagus

Edgy 
Veggie

All over the Stove

Splatter
Matter

Don’t let Pa Find This

Risky 
Whisky

Brother Got the Macaroni He Wanted

Dinner
Winner

The Hostess Treat that Hid in the Pantry Corner

Stinky
Twinky

Oops! Leftovers...

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Categories: food, humorous,
Form: Footle
Premium Member One Life
There have been those who said,                   ...

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Categories: food, green, home, jobs,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs