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Food Poems | Examples of Food Poetry

Food Poems - Examples of all types of food poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for food.
Premium Member Raining in Summer
Spring is on it's way out, with warmer days on the horizon. Summer is a great time of the year, sleeping in from school ~ hooray. Splashing fun time at the pool or beach, to cookouts of BBQ and Ice...Read the rest...
Categories: beach, food, fun, garden,
Form: Free verse



Bottled Vinegar
In these days of austerity It’s getting to be a treat To go out for a few pints And have a bite to eat, So, Please Mr Pub Landlord Grant me just a little wish Bring back the vinegar bottle So I...Read the rest...
Categories: anger, food, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If Only You Knew
If only you knew the feel of a zephyr, With its current swooping around hillsides Ruffling the spruce trees everywhere, Or descend downwards towards verdant vales Where flowers bloom all through the year. If only you knew what the oceans...Read the rest...
Categories: abuse, food, humanity, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member portmanteau most fowl
portmanteau most fowl conceived of a twisted mind— turducken madness...Read the rest...
Categories: food, humorous, imagination, word
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Cartwheels for Veronica
Archie did cartwheels for Veronica Jughead even played his harmonica ~ But Veronica’s Jewish Leaving two suitors bluish ~ Steinberg...Read the rest...
Categories: boyfriend, celebrity, chanukah, food,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Spring Sonnet
Spring Sonnet The microscopic lifeforms in my soil Sense the rising in degrees Celsius. Old Summer’s red wiggler worms now uncoil, While hungry birds look down most odious. Most showers now done, the weeds envelope The surviving herbs, flowers, plus veggies. Like...Read the rest...
Categories: earth, food, garden, halloween,
Form: Sonnet
Cupcakes
It smells of delicious red velvet cupcakes in the air. Even though I am diabetic I am also without care, For I much rather enjoy life as though it is not there....Read the rest...
Categories: food,
Form: Sijo
Portable Pizza
The pizza trucks were parked outside With bakers rolling dough And spreading it to fit the pans, The toppings set to go. The crusts were thin and crispy; The veggies, sauce and cheese Were baked to such perfection That they couldn’t...Read the rest...
Categories: food,
Form: Rhyme
Nature Gives
I love nature gives I love discrete birds singing All natural food....Read the rest...
Categories: appreciation, bird, food, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member McChicken Special
a long-necked goose pursued a stuffed hen, waddling through the entrails of an all-you-can-eat ...Read the rest...
Categories: bird, food, stars,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Tea and The Bee Limerick Set
How about some delicious tea I want it with crackers and brie Honey is very sweet Better than sweaty feet I got bit by a yellow bee That bee just flew far far away Guess the bee did not want to...Read the rest...
Categories: drink, food, friend, giggle,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member pudding
pudding lemon meringue flavor-able, moist and sweet mom put whipped cream on her pudding butterscotch used to be my favorite coconut cream or chocolate marvelous terrific pistachio pudding...Read the rest...
Categories: food,
Form: Rictameter
Premium Member salt
salt french fries ham and beans potato chips salted caramel needed for cucumber she can wake up your taste buds put in water for gargling imagine a world without her...Read the rest...
Categories: food,
Form: Nonet
Premium Member broth
broth fever remedy chicken noodle helps you with sore throat tasty vegetable soup salty and warm going down you can add it to anything I drink it plain when I have a bad cold...Read the rest...
Categories: food,
Form: Nonet
Premium Member IT s THE LITTLE THINGS LIKE TIM TAMS
it’s the little things like tim tams. having gotten my attention, the box hops into my shopping cart, but not before I cartwheel and squeal, certain that one of the poets has nurtured my senses with an Australian accent. i’m handing...Read the rest...
Categories: food, friendship,
Form: Free verse

Specific Types of Food Poems

Definition | What is Food in Poetry?


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