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Food Eulogy Poems

These Food Eulogy poems are examples of Eulogy poems about Food. These are the best examples of Eulogy Food poems written by international poets.


Premium Member Planche de Chair Cuite

She was not invited

She was arranged

They never wanted Jasmine 
not the woman who brought basil-clean hands
and pomegranate soap 
who harmonized soliloquies into pastries 
while they
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Categories: eulogy, betrayal, death, gothic, grief,



Recycled

Born out of time, 
I felt different from mankind. 
As a child I would fly at night 
and leave the body behind.

Soaring like an eagle
I
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Categories: death, earth, eulogy, funeral,

Premium Member WHOSE WILL BE DONE?



Between the blades of dewy grass
Mingle the particles of fresh dust
Their colour bleached to grey.


A bird descends and pecks for food,
Finding nothing it ascends today
Climbs
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Categories: death, eulogy, family,

ODE TO THE MAKER

Some attribute their breath to nature's sway
Their restroom visits, a natural way
They trust their sleep, an inbuilt alarm to wake
But I, with years of wisdom,
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Categories: appreciation, emotions, eulogy, feelings,

Villanelles IV

VILLANELLES IV

She Always Grew Roses
by Michael R. Burch

a belated eulogy for my grandmother, Lillian Lee 

Tell us, heart, what the season discloses. 
“Too little loved
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Categories: angel, eulogy, family, grandmother,



Premium Member The Middle Path of Buddha

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          Down
     To his bare
  Bones. He was
A walking skeleton
Weeks before
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Categories: eulogy, inspirational love,

Premium Member When You Return

Sojourner to far-flung climes;
When you return,
Will you remember the evening songs
Chorused by chirping under the baobab tree?
Will you still remember the fame of the great
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Categories: africa, beauty, culture, eulogy,

Premium Member Home Medicines

Invincible craving for the relish from home, 
Laughter in deep dimples sets as lava, seats silently with desires.
 Mother’s medicines rejuvenate,

Food, Bring them from Africa.
Especially
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Categories: africa, allusion, desire, eulogy,

Premium Member The Man of the Hour

The caricature of a gentleman, nameless, scorned,
The infamous savage of the famous street was wobbling:
Scruffy, shaggy, ruffed beared, tousled haired,
Disheveled,
there went the odious appearance, bumbling.
Soubriquet:
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Categories: eulogy, food, grief, hero,

Premium Member An Ode To the Scavenger

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Strophe
Slowly and slowly fly the mighty feathers:
the uncanny wrath bearer, the poacher's prey,
the bald bizzare stigmatic cryptic creature, the ecology's majestic role player;
the curtain raiser
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Categories: eulogy, absence, animal, appreciation, beautiful,

Every Goddamned Cake

Every goddamned cake
You bake
I shall speedily take…

Not simply for its sake:
The fragile dreams it does awake!
A shimmering bluish water lake,
Where my unsafe love guesses I
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Categories: eulogy, food, heart,

Every Goddamned Cake

Every goddamned cake
You bake
I shall speedily take…

Not simply for its sake:
The fragile dreams it does awake!
A shimmering bluish water lake,
Where my unsafe love guesses I
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Categories: eulogy, food, heart,

Sugar

I see it in cubes cast
And chiefly featuring in breakfast;
In Bread and cake harboured
And in plantains and cereals honoured…

Also in my tea that would gullets
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Categories: death, eulogy, food,

Premium Member Crackers

Mmm! 
I ate a Cracker! 
Crackers taste good! 
Now I'm a cannibal.
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Categories: eulogy, food, funny, happy,

Emilia In Romagna

Emilia In Romagna

Somewhere a lost little girl
Is crying in her bedroom closet
Because she can’t hear
Her mama
Moving about anymore
She can see dim shapes
Mama stored stuff in
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Categories: eulogy, absence, allegory, art, aubade,


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