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Best Dining Poems

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


Premium Member As Father Is To His Daughter
Passing through framed windows like ours,
I recall your tales of reckless war and lost friends
that burned your innocence at 21... and though
you claimed flashes of...

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Categories: dining, father, introspection, words,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member New Menu at Milton Creek's Aces Restaurant
*** Notice to the residents of Milton Creek ***

Tom serves as mayor. never complaining, so he gets what he requests 
No blood in his steak,...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dining, people, places,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member REJOICE









If about my death you are ever informed,  my friends,

Do not shed a single tear - REJOICE!

For

In peace, at last, I will be dining...

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Categories: dining, death, friendship, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If I Were An Elephant
Across the Serengeti plain our matriarch would lead,
Dining on the guarri fruit, and gum acacia seeds.
Upon our sweet green namesake grass our bellies we would...

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Categories: dining, africa, animal, dream,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Our Christmas Eve Dinner
'Twas our Christmas Eve dinner; we all had sat down
at the table to eat. Grandma couldn’t be found!
We children were fussing; Dad rose to his...

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Categories: dining, dad, humorous, mom, prayer,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Summer Camp Souvenirs
When I got home from camp today,
My parents almost died.
They asked me how I got this way,
And here's what I replied:

"This little cast from heel...

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Categories: dining, childhood, humorous, parents, vacation,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Death Tolls
The atmosphere rings with the bell like calls
of the plover flock, long before they are spotted.
The flight herringbones a grey fedora sky.
Markings of white and...

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Categories: dining, beach, beauty, bird, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Shade From the Past
Just as days long ago, when decorum resolved, 
before composure, and poise,.. were corsages, unknown
Where propriety mattered, and was favored as gold,
high society, has gathered...

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Categories: dining, art, nostalgia, people,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Where Cheerful Robins Dance
Gleefully you and I smile from a scenic window on life
Enchanted by nightfall befriending quixotic autumn sky
Embossing crimson brushstrokes on vermilion arc
Akin to a painting...

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Categories: dining, imagery, nature, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 1856

During a bad storm one night I turned on my television
Grey and black flickering lines appeared, obscuring my vision
I went outside and saw the aerial...

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Categories: dining, dark, dream, surreal,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Great Horned Owl
In the daylight hours, I spend  my time
So high on a perch, in a lofty pine
Where I fluff and comb my pretty plumes
And wait...

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Categories: dining, bird, flying, nature,
Form: Personification
Two Trees: Mr Oak and Mr Bamboo
"Two Trees:  Mr. Oak And Mr. Bamboo"


A terrible wind storm was approaching and blowing everything out of it's path!
NOTHING....not one thing at all, could...

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Categories: dining, image, philosophy, storm, tree,
Form: Personification
Abused
It could have been a beautiful memory to write down

Walking hand in hand with mama

My long brown french pleats  bouncing in the wind 

My...

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Categories: dining, abuse, child,
Form: Free verse
A Little House of Memories
It was a lovely little house.

Built of white painted timber,

with a gabled roof clad in green tin,

it had never been a rich person's house.

It was...

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© Red Omara  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dining, memory,
Form: Free verse
Ocean Pleasure
Social Media is raving about my seafood haven.
Any ocean gift you wish is on my menu list.
It is known for chocolate bliss in any form...

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Categories: dining, fantasy, fun,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs