Monday Poetry Stretch - Food For Thought

I have been reading a lot of poetry lately for an article I am writing. The more I read, the more I recognize my own decidedly biased tastes. I must admit, I have no fondness for love poetry. None. My apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the writers of aubades, but this just isn't my thing. However, give me a poem professing a love for food (chocolate?) and I am right there with the author, hanging on (drooling over?) every word.

Here's a poem from Arnold Adoff's book Eats Poems.

Chocolate
Chocolate
        i
love
    you so
        i
want
    to
marry
    you
    and
live
    forever
        in the
        flavor
of your
    brown

Last year, Sara Lewis Holmes wrote one of the most mouth-watering poems I've ever read. Entitled and you know this, it's all about one of my favorite summertime foods. (I am the one eating in pre-counted rows, and I loved racing my brother!)

Now that you've seen a few examples, your challenge for this week is to write some food inspired poetry. Choose any form, and write about food in any way, from its creation to consumption. Leave me a comment about your poem and I'll post it here later this week.