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Food Poems | Examples of Food Poetry

Retribution
Twilight was the time of day as well they do concur about the hour of crepuscular dusk or evening if you prefer there in the gloaming altho' the light was slightly dimmer I took a look at the situation and saw more than quite a glimmer of absolute absurdity the altercation confrontation as if every nation were to follow the Law of Exact Retaliation an...

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Categories: death, food, how i
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member becoming food
raven's wingspan was huge her talons grabbed me right up I became food...

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Categories: food, animal, bird,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Hurts So Good
She is deliciously unhappy. Listening to heartbreak songs in minor keys, the melodies seem to flick her heart…flick,flick…Like the 4th grade bully who sneaks up behind everyone to flick an ear, thinking causing jolts of pain is the funniest thing since The Three Stooges. Yea, that's...

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Categories: food, heartbreak,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Donuts Come and Go
Donuts come and donuts go, because they're round, and so when you take them off the fire, they're shaped like a rubber tire, with a hole right in the middle - they ain't no pancake from a griddle. Where do the donuts go? Don't ask me, I don't know....

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Categories: food, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Cream in the sausage
We know the secret to winning The sweet fennel sausage with sweet relish and eggnog yeast rolls. The toll of the roll with caramelized onions The dungeon were the tomato's Ripen is scrubbing Perfect lettuce ooh the sweet relish Is it delish love your relish Peggy rolls takes the tolls to another Level Sausage sammish and fries damn I Love your sandwich Oniony buttered rolls Like a...

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Categories: food, art, character, culture, devotion,
Form: Ballade



Premium Member A Donut's Tale
Here's the true story of a beautiful girl. How the sun shone on her every curl. Like a proud oyster's flawless, crowning pearl, she was admired from all around - the sweetest angel in the town. She was a ray of bright sunshine, was good at dancing in a line, and left everyone feeling fine -...

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Categories: food, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member It's My Cherry Pie
My baby made me cherry pie And damn it tastes so fine You can eat some cherry pie "Just don't eat Mine" She put cherries on the top She put cherries in the middle And a crust she made with almond chips That she toasted on the griddle I love my baby's cherry pie I can eat...

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Categories: food,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member A Fern
(A Pensee Poem Form Used) a fern asparagus created by our Savior for human's food, birds' food, beauty perfection in nature ...

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Categories: beauty, bird, food,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member She Wished to be Rich
She wished to be rich though she was built like a bridge But she could cook, she could sew, she could stitch So, she snagged a wealthy man ...

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Categories: beauty, food, hope, money,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hungry Bear
bear wading in the stream bear grabs a jumping salmon bear feeds his hunger ...

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Categories: animal, fish, fishing, food,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Hunger Sleeps Standing
Hunger sleeps standing, leaning against time, Its door is ajar, wanting and waiting, for the fast to lift. Can't miss the hand-out when it comes, from one hand held-out giving, to one hand held-out receiving, both awake and aroused....

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Categories: emotions, food,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Julie Andrews Oversight?
Music, both sacred and profane, an elephant in cellophane, a boa constrictor bowing a cello, aluminum and lemon Jello - these are things Ms. Andrews missed as on her favorite things, she dished....

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Categories: animal, food, music, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Stench of Moldy Cheese
Pungent scent plays on the breeze ~ what a stink! One I think, makes me sneeze Gagging with each breath, I wheeze Because of that moldy cheese! ...

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Categories: food,
Form: Englyn
Premium Member fuzzy fruity peach
fuzzy ferociously tasty fruity peach...

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Categories: food,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Oh, You Said Get Dog Food, Not a Bale of Hay
“I say, I say, pay attention when I’m talkin’ to ya, boy!” Classic line from Fog Horn Leghorn, a Looney Tunes character A husband was prone to get details confused. His wife told him this...

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Categories: food, conflict, marriage,
Form: Rhyme

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