Best Gourmet Poems

Gourmet Spider


Please, please, please don’t eat me
I am so tiny
Not a meal at all
Eight spindly legs and no abdomen to speak of
So please, please, please don’t eat me

I have tapped and drummed on your web
To soothe your voraciousness 
Now let me crawl stealthily to the...

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Great food is his livelihood,
Of it he writes each day.
Upon his word others depend.
Restaurant offers best entrée,
Making much of the display.
Each chef awaits the morning news
To see what he has to say....

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I ate
The bones of dogs
I ate the past before it ate me
I ate my heart
So I am with out love
I seek my next meal
Blood pie and veal
I ate the lips of a lover
I sealed the kiss with the wish of another
I am still starving, deep...

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THE GALLOPING GOURMET TREATS


Just finished watching the galloping gourmet
Cooking and frying up fried brains today
All his delicious meals and delectable treats
He may even be pounding and making mince meats
Always like listening to his many happy tunes
While he sings and belts out some merry half moons
He...

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Smiling recollections,
summer evening reflections, now
almost gone for new generations
while my venues of childhood musings
and adolescent anticipations
...near extinction.
I must concede my willingness to share
what they will never recall
     - the exhilaration 
when Dad would pronounce,
"We're going to the drive-in tonight".
A creature double...

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Revere needed cash,
meals on hooves his slogan throughout Boston,
his fast food a smash.







1-10-17...

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A bachelor's life is, by necessity, quite simple
We're generally the same ourselves
Complications we avoid
They take from us too much energy
And if you look at our kitchen shelves
You'll almost always see
Our gourmet pre-made food
is for us the key
We would not know how to fry
an egg or...

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Flowers cream and violet to brighten the pale summer
Bleached out houses against painted green lawns
Vanilla beans from Madagascar stiffen and crumble
Kitchen heating up with Peruvian songs
Dandelion soup for dinner, picked from the patch in the back
Parsley tabouli with tomatoes tender, hardly a commoner’s snack
Shoulders sun...

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A Gourmet Treat 

By Elton Camp

Joe went to Mexico to see a bullfight 
Then to the arena’s café to eat that night

The waiter, “Our testiculo is the very best
And I recommend it over all of the rest.”

It was a dish of which Joe had never...

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The aardvark is a quirky beast,
Uniquely dentalated,
And to the armadillo gastronomically related.
He dines on termites, ants, and such,
Most any bug his tongue can touch,
On fruits and veggies, not so much,
Unless he's running low on Vitamin C…
Or needs to be re-regulated....

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once a young man from brooklyn

wanted to try home cookn

for his oven it died

from some rice that he fried

now he's takeout a'look'n.
...

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A follow-up to Beryl Edmonds
"A Flying Romance" 02/11/24 


Gourmet Grasshopper

After the spider made lunch of the fly
A curious grasshopper leapt on by
He told the fly with gusto
I really now must go
to dine on my worm and centipede pie!
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Noodles kept fluffy and warm
   Peas from the can shorn
Water drained from tuna's can
     Now, bachelor man
       Add all the mayo
         You can stand
 ...

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lord of the outdoors
ruler of the castle
king of the barbecue
wielding fork and spatula
like a maestro
snow rain or shine
surf and turf
burgers or hotdogs
rotisserie chicken
exotic kebobs
grilled colorful veggies
nontraditional desserts
take a bow
you’re a pro



submitted on June 26, 2018 for contest SUMMER COOKING sponsored by KIM RODRIGUES...

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TS Eliot said, “Paris is a strong stimulant.”
It is - but it has nothing on Manhattan.
If Paris is a Café Crème espresso at a café-en-terrasse under the stars.
Manhattan is a ‘Black Tie Bawls’ cocktail at The Crown bar (the skyline!).

We were going to relax -...

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