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Food Poems | Examples of Food Poetry

And The Cat Crept In
Motion-activated caught on camera while cookies for the kids I was cooking a collared cat crept into the kitchen when I stepped outside and wasn't looking his potty break was well-timed as, sadly, I'd left the door unlocked onto the counter by the sink he climbed bared his butt and crapped in the crock tho' he gave new meaning to vanilla chocolate chip if I...

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Categories: animal, cat, fish, food,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member NECTAR SAVOUR-
gentle bee lights feeds beside me as I am sighting colorful floral ~ aromatic bud enters flower and just sucks the tasty nectar 07/14/25 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2025© ...

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Categories: addiction, deep, engagement, food,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member My Father's Instructions: Cooking Filet Mignon
Have it At room Temperature Before cooking. No marinade. Just coarse salt And pepper. Hot heavy pan Medium to high heat. Flip when seared. Dark brown. Lower heat. Lotsa butter, Mushrooms, Chopped shallots, Drops of Lee and Perrins. Squirt of lemon & Dash of parsley At the end. Have a warm plate. Drop it all from the pan. Keep plate On low warm. Let it sit for 20min. Tenderloin is delicate. ...

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Categories: food,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Not so Glorious French Cuisine
The Not so Glorious French Cuisine The French are fond of foods most Americans would freak out on, and they’re not bargains. Let’s start with the least freakish: rabbit (lapin) – farm raised and bathed in a Dijon mustard sauce – like chicken say those who’ve tried it. Quail and pigeon (caille and pigeon) wont kill your appetite...

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Categories: food,
Form: Free verse
How Now Slough
Although it’s a hard row to hoe a rough furrow to harrow and a tough trench to plough there’s many a meadow to mow I hereby avow and tho' it may be news to you farmers have the need to sow their seeds where milkmaids milk the cows swineherds feed their sows and shepherds have their pie and eat it too in Slough now ...

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Categories: animal, food, fun, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



LA GORDITA SERRANO
Estos son los cuentos Que se abarca por los vientos De La Gordita Serrano En una noche de Verano! Que día de aventura Te lo contaré sin añadidura! El cuento de su boda será la que perdura Como Tampiqueña de estatura! Ay, como lo siento Por La Gordita La De Serrano Pero NO por su esposo El Guanaco Poblano El Cuento es un bocadillo Que pica...

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Categories: food, cinco de mayo, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Snacks
The road trips are for snacks. That fire playlist to chew on, a bag of Smartfood to munch on, some Sparkling Ice to sip on, then baby we’re gone! Chunky sub sandwich for lunch, you probably had a hunch. I eat them toasted a bunch, I’m addicted to that crunch! This bag of almonds I chose, tasty enough to inspire prose. So delicious I’d...

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Categories: adventure, emotions, feelings, food,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Popcorn Scatter Gun
Corncob lay basking in the sun Sunbathing and having such fun But it got so hot His nib-lets were shot - Popping off the flies, when done...

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Categories: food,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Revised Nursery Rhyme - Mary - Bitesize Contest
Mary ate a great big ham her gills turned white as snow So, to the bathroom Mary went ‘cos up she had to throw Entry in...

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Categories: food, funny,
Form: Rhyme
beach day popcorn
sunbathing in style, one stays chill, the other pops— summer’s buttered joke....

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Categories: food, summer,
Form: Haiku
Waiting at the bus stop
a bobble hat fellow rumbles along sharp turns behind me - hello - but reaches up to the wall grabs an apple 80 percent intact and hobbles away again a few seconds later he's back again turns behind me, bends low and picks up the soggy, abandoned box of donuts two inside remaining successful mission he wobbles away...

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Categories: england, food, london, simple,
Form: Free verse
I starve myself
I starve myself. When saying it out loud it sounds surreal, But it’s the only way I can feel. I am not worthy of food. It is not worth the weight. Fore I see myself by what I have ate. Starving is like slowing dying. Numb, and invisible to what others can see. Funny how food could be the death of me. I...

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Categories: body, fear, feelings, food,
Form: Free verse
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Categories: food, insect,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Where Have All the Donuts Gone?
Apologies to Pete Seeger Where have all the donuts gone? They are asking. Where have all the donuts gone? Nobody knows. Where have all the donuts gone? I ate them - every one. I hope they never learn. I hope they never learn....

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Categories: food,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Look I Am Popping Away
I love when we sit in the hot bright sun, add some butter or we will get well done. Sky and water of ice blue, better than the dull store view. Oh! look I am popping so I will run....

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Categories: food, giggle, humor, sunshine,
Form: Limerick

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