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Food Longing Poems

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


Selection Number One
5 cups of cooked black rice
2 cups of cooked kidney beans
3 cups of cooked lamb sliced thin
sauteed in garlic and olive oil
1/2 cup of onions...

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Categories: longing, creation, engagement, food, guitar,



Premium Member Let's
I'll take you on a flight
Anytime you want
The prop is always turning
And I know a restaurant
That you would really like
It's over in Vermont
It's rustic and...

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Categories: longing, flying, for her, i

Premium Member Chasing Shadows In the Breath of Dreams
A long-awaited breeze interacts with the curtains; 
you now have my full attention.
Where will this newfound focus take me?
Touch my every sensation, no promises needed.
The...

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© Lee Norton  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: longing, deep, desire, dream, imagery,

Premium Member Will - a Power
the 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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© Sand Blown  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: creation, food, longing,

Premium Member My Love When You Leave
My love when you leave
When you walk away
It's my moon vanishing
It's my sun disappearing
I do not eat
And your delicious food sleeps under the covers
I drink...

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Categories: farewell, feelings, heart, longing,



You Deserve
Hey Gorgeous Being
You deserve to breathe easy
You deserve amazing food
You deserve love
What is Below, is Above

You deserve heaven
Bread that's leavened
Butter, Love, Honey, Fruits
Shade - only...

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© Gu Jendayi  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: longing, 12th grade, allusion, beautiful,

Premium Member Most Beautiful Christmas Poem
It’s Christmas Eve and we will travel
a long way on a cold night
thinking of the twinkling lights,
the golden bulbs, the heirloom crèche,
the smell of sweets...

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Categories: christmas, community, december, longing,

Nostalgia
When the snow falls,
Stabbing my heart with cold,
I long for my mother's hearth
That shielded us from the harmattan.
I perceive the aroma of burning logs
And the...

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Categories: africa, feelings, longing, nostalgia,

Premium Member I Wandered Lonely As a Cat
"I wandered lonely as a cloud", William Wordsworth 

I wandered lonely as a cat
And grew weary of chasing rats.
I'm not fond of killing lizards,
And squirrels...

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Categories: cat, loneliness, lonely, longing,

Plate of Death
"They say that I need help 
But all I see is I'm okay" 

This might just be my last meal
And I'd be chewing to my...

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Categories: food, health, lonely, longing,

Simply Devine
2 cups of pureed roasted sweet potatoes
2 cups of sliced mushrooms ( sauteed in olive oil)
6 cups of pork stock. OR
3 1/2 cups each of...

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Categories: adventure, food, longing, love,

Premium Member Food Is Love
and love is food
come bring your appetite
my lips ready for a feast
a nibble here and there

pinot noir or chardonnay
moist upon my tongue
please don't tease
or wake...

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Categories: animal, appreciation, food, longing,

Premium Member We Don'T Sit At the Table Anymore
The aroma permeates throughout the house.
It's that time when we used to sit at the table.
The time we would talk to each other. 
The time...

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Categories: change, family, food, longing,

Abuse, Lies and Deceit
Begging for money and food on the street
Dreaming someday her Prince Charming she’ll meet
Someone to love and sweep her off her feet!

Her prince has arrived,...

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Categories: longing, 11th grade, abuse, betrayal,

Premium Member It's a Lifetime Away
It’s only fifteen hundred miles
From Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts,
To Omaha, Nebraska,
But it’s a lifetime away.
All those good years and bad years,
The old furniture and the new,
The...

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Categories: emotions, feelings, longing, moving


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