Food poems - let's eat our words (poetry game)

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Dining on dinner

two poached eggs
one cloudy around the yoke
two broiled chicken thighs
one crispier than is healthy
two more pounds
I must workout longer
too much fun
this eating
 

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Colby Longhorn and Monterey Jack

Desperado of the West!
Renegade Cheese, all nattily dressed
In cellophane chaps and a wax paper vest,
Six-gun at his side.

Here comes Jack, itchin' to fight,
Riding roughshod out of the night,
Brie and Feta tremble in fright,
Hide, Ranchers, hide!

He rustled their cattle, horses and foals,
He burned their houses down to coals,
He shot Old Man Swiss plumb full of holes,
In front, back and side!

The bank in Cheeseville locked its door,
Away the stagecoach driver tore,
The Cheddar merchant lay on the floor,
Hide, Townies, Hide!

From out of the East a stranger came,
Colby Longhorn was his name,
Out to crumble Monterey's fame,
He searched far and wide!

Monterey Jack laughed when he heard
How Colby Longhorn spread the word
He'd whip his whey and beat his curd,
Jack's rep he did deride!

They met on the street at a quarter to one
And when the marshal's work was done,
Monterey Jack was on the run!
Ride, Outlaw, Ride!

Jack rode his Pimiento out from the town,
Colby set out to track him down,
Toting a grater and wearing a frown,
Destinies to decide!

The outlaw was wounded, quite badly, and so
In Parmesan Valley he waited below
Some tumbleweeds so could bushwack his foe!
Hide, Outlaw, Hide!

But good luck was with Old Colby that day.
The Outlaw's first shot went wildly astray,
The marshal fired back and he blew Jack away!
Jack lay down and died!

When Colby returned the whole town gave a cheer,
Gouda the bartender gave him free beer.
They lauded the Cheese whom the outlaws did fear,
To honor him they vied.

He settled in town and married a Miss,
Ricotta, the daughter of the late Old Man Swiss,
And there he has stayed from that day to this,
Contented with his bride!

c 2002 Mark Orr
 

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It's Grits

I'd like to offer a little homily
Upon the joys of ground up hominy.
The stuff is always ordered in the plurality;
Specifically, 'how much?' instead of 'how many?'

A singleness the dish does not possess,
Although one might say it has singularity.
And north of the Mason-Dixon Line
In most restaurants it is a rarity.

Them Yankees have no clue just what they are missing.
They grind up some taters and fry 'em to bits
And pass off their hashbrowns as a poor substitute -
But you just ain't got breakfast unless you have grits.
 

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Dasies on my palate
fresh from a garden salad
prickled up and down spine
tickled chin yellow,
tingled nose and toes
into a dance of woes.
 

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I wipe the grease off my face, and
try not to think of Food Inc.
And those fat chickens,
too ungainly to waddle
too portly to gobble.

Fed a diet of hormones
and sad pebbly shit.

It's not me
those birds on the ground
they're not me
and I will not become
a fat cluster of hormones
neck broken and plucked

due process through the machine.

Crispy and obedient
fresh from the fryer.
 

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Ode to a Duck

When we first met
They saw little future
In our romance

Who was it
Shook their heads and said
‘You cannot love a duck’
For I have proved them wrong

Your skin is crisp
And sweet brown flesh
Parts from your bones
In succulent ribbons

And I am wracked with guilt
For having devoured you

Wrapped with spring onions
In a hoisin sauce
 
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Cheap Burger Love

The Burger King has finally done it
A double cheeseburger for a buck

I just had two for lunch today
while sitting in my truck.

No fries and hold the mayo please
I took it just like that

I washed it down with diet Coke
'Cause hey, I can't get fat
 

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Crudités

An April lunch
Captures a moment
Of crudity

Two soft poached eggs
Lightly salt and peppered
Quiver in anticipation

Whilst they await
The spearing thrust
Of a freshly cut asparagus

Is this not oral sex?
 
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Crudités

An April lunch
captures a moment
of crudity

two softly poached eggs
lightly salt and peppered
quiver in anticipation

whilst they await
the spearing thrust
of a freshly cut asparagus

Is this not oral sex?

Loved this!
 

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I cajoles, I wheedles, I pleads, I begs
For someone to bring me a plate of frog legs.
Depriving batrachians of their nether extremities
Fills my tummy and soul with the greatest of ecstasies.
 

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Mary had a little lamb,
But not long, I'm here to say.
Last night I ate its chops with mint jelly,
And I'll consume its leg today.
 

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Gator tail, gator tail, I do love some gator tail.
Battered, breaded, deep fat fried,
Serve it quickly, without fail.
Make some shoes from its tough hide,
And let me eat what's found inside.
 

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2,275 views of 36 posts!!!!!!!!!

Just bumping up threads that I think are fun to read over. It blows me away that there are some threads that have an incredible amount of views for so few posts!

There are some definate fun reads in here and , if you're looking for something to do, poetically speaking, you can concoct one of your own food poems and post it for us to chew on.
 

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Fatal Attraction



I saw you loitering in the supermarket aisle
Provocative, prostrate and prostitute
Laid out, like Amsterdam whores

You little scarlet tarts

So I stump up all my cash and rush you home
In eager anticipation
For I knew the wife was at work

And the pot of single cream
On the top shelf of my fridge
Features prominently in my thoughts

I cut you

Sprinkle sugar on your wounds
Bite into soft yielding flesh
And tongue your flooding juices

The kitchen door bursts open

And I am undone
She who must be obeyed
Reaches out and confiscates

My strawberries

Every single one
 
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Cheetos I love you
But I get orange on my parts
When I scratch down there
 

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I dress up my tongue
in your ropas viejas
like an emperor.
 
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a pot of Earl Grey
so creamy and sweet
to wash down McVities
milk chocolate and wheat
 

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merlot on my tongue

lucky for you
i was tasting the red

guessing at manners
when you said what you said

the cheese had no clue
so much space in your head

and I politely didn't spit
I just swallowed, you mislead
 
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Pickles
Dill
Pickles
Sweet
Suck the seeds out
Then you eat
them on two slices of rye slathered with mayonnaise and maybe a thick slice of bologna.
 

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A Foraging I Will Go

At the behest of some savage instinct
in support of some hungry desire
I bridge over a trembling weed creek
then
cut my way through some woodsy wild

In the deep and the darkened-moist forest
lay decaying and crumbly logs
there
I spot the delicate morels
on the floor of what once was a bog

A handful was all I could count for
that
and a few other colored fungi
I will need to rely on a book source
to make sure that I won't eat and die
 

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a BLT
is quite a treat
tho it clogs the arteries
and slows the beat
 

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Pickle pickle pickle,
It's oh so fun to say.
Pickle pickle pickle,
I think I'll have one, today.

-Suzanne
 

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oh my mushroom feast
see it now being picked
freshly grown from the field
all the way to the pan
and nicely topped
with some rice
seasonedsoft with saffran
and tapioka heated fast
so lovely it does taste!
 

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Inherent in the act
of seeking therapy online
is the likelihood that I'm less than ok

So the websites advise me
to live in the moment
and focus on the details
of the here and now
the present

So down I look
at my duck noodle soup
shimmering with ovals
of golden oil

And I think about how
this slice of gizzard
is textured like expensive wallpaper
and how it feels
to eat a room
that was once a charnel house
for the bits of food
that made my food