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Best Meal Poems

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


Premium Member All I Am
Long slender tendril of mist in the morning
snakes slowly across the cool water, wandering,
endlessly,
searching, moving slowly, seemingly without purpose,
without direction, without destination.
It fades like a...

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Categories: meal, longing,
Form: Free verse



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: meal, food, funny, humorous, rude,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love - An Explosive Rant

she was all like - there's something i have to tell you
but before she gets to say it
his ex wife shows up

he's all like -...

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Categories: meal, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Survivors Guilt
It's been ten long years now since that awful tragedy
When a stranger I didn't know, gave his life to save me
I was on the edge...

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Categories: meal, death, grief, how i
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Once Upon A Time In Milton Creek
The sun was rising high in the east over the town of Milton creek
It was the eighteenth day of December, the start of Christmas week
All...

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Categories: meal, america, anniversary, christmas, remember,
Form: Narrative



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: meal, appreciation, food, grandchild, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Once Upon A Time In Milton Creek The Conclusion
It was still quite dark in Milton Creek, and it had just gone four
When Tom arrived at the sheriff's office, and knocked on his door
The...

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Categories: meal, america, death, western,
Form: Narrative
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: meal, people, places,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Man Under Stress, a Collaboration With Francis Crasto
My appreciation Francis Crasto for allowing me to collaborate with you as your 'psychiatrist' on ‘A MAN UNDER STRESS’- A great sequel to your recent...

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Categories: meal, humor, rap, stress,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member You Are God and I Have To Believe
YOU ARE GOD and I HAVE TO BELIEVE


My dear Father God above the heavens high
ever loving and ever faithful in loving me
even though, I am...

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Categories: meal, christian, conflict, confusion, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Other Faiths
Some say you are lost
If you are not found
On their ground

Some think you are blind
If you do not find
What they find

I am an atheist who...

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Categories: meal, atheist, caregiving, community, how
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Red's Silent Fury
Metallic city howls like a wounded animal
scraped by nocturnal vigils
of grandchildren and elders
emaciated like tuberculosis lungs
gasping from chug-chugs of tobacco soot...
and the face of a...

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Categories: meal, anger, angst,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Streetlife
I’m on my way into the grocery store
when I see him huddled near the shop doorway
In his outstretched hand
an empty coffee cup
I throw in a...

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Categories: meal, environment, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Never Never Land
Sad broken boy
When will you become a man
You try flying high
wishing you were Peter Pan
But you don’t understand 
the stuff you’re putting in your veins
...

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Categories: meal, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member THE LONG GOODBYE

They sit in silence at the table
Eating their evening meal
He gently wipes the food from her face
This life they now live still feels so surreal

She...

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© Deb M   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: meal, age, change, loss,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs