Metaphor Food Poems
These Metaphor Food poems are examples of Food poems about Metaphor. These are the best examples of Food Metaphor poems written by international poets.
BlameIt simmers. This constant invisible, hovering
like a wasp in the forever periphery threatening
lightning strike yellows, sudden and unbidden. It spills
and spools, down into...
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Categories:
food, analogy,
A Hunger Unfedfrom your first born, when you grab a dusting of talc, crushed with late night feeds, stirring in bouncing and stories on a knee,
adding a...
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food, analogy,
A Tree Bears FruitStarting quite fragile, wet, bright and agile,
it met the first test of it’s life.
Death promptly flew down, pecked at the ground,
a beak that glints...
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Categories:
food, bird, children, fruit, growth,
In The SilenceIn your silence I see colours,
speech crumbling like flaking paint, dried; truth dripping from lips, black spittle on a brush.
In the silence I inhale the...
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food, analogy,
The Meal
In the shallow
light of the moon,
the shadow dives
into the Hydrangeas
seeking a camouflage
of dark green
the howl of the
wolf pierces the
silence of the sleepy night
like the cry...
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Categories:
food, cat, confusion, death, extended
Fast Food
I have a box that I keep locked
In my bag
Pockets deeper than six feet
My friend Andrew died
But he still helps me pay for things
Jack let...
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Categories:
food, funny, metaphor, money,
VanillaI am so vanilla, plain but sweet,
Still good enough for you to eat....
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food, metaphor, passion, sensual,
Little Red Riding Hood Wants To Be Skinny TooI was jogging down a wooden trail, Hoping to lose the extra holiday fat
When I saw my favorite little girl, Sporting her fabled red cape...
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Categories:
food, allegory, angst, body, culture,
Chocolate Cake BiteDiet rabbit hole...
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food, metaphor,
Unswallowed FoodWhen you force to swallow
Some contaminated food,
You putting yourself at big
Risk and you will blame
Innocent people
In the future.
Unswallowed food pushing...
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Categories:
food, africa, irony, metaphor,
In Praise of Home CookingRestaurant cuisine
wears torn jeans
Its label reads
'Made by machine'...
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Categories:
fashion, food, home, how
Poetry SoupWhen I joined poetry soup,
I thought to find free daily soup
From different world junior and senior poets.
By my surprise I found best quality...
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food, imagery, metaphor, poetry, poets,
Will - a Powerthe feathered are creative and...
the raven rates a number one on the
bird intelligence scale of inventive creativity...
different species typify various problem solving...
logic-skill techniques that 'metaphor'...
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Categories:
creation, food, longing,
Victim HunterA hunter on hunting field
Hunting dengerous animals.
Trapping their ways
And hid behind a baobab tree.
A Clever leopard found out the traps
And hid on the...
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Categories:
food, animal, death of a
Patience Worth and Poet's ManifestI
The prose & prosaic lives pursuing career
From apartheid in Africa to US freedoms (1983)
Poets voices muted, too much hunger
The luxury of democracy, enduring systems
Of dispossession,...
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Categories:
food, africa, conflict, education, environment,