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A Friday food based poetry round up

Oh I do hope that this week tickled your fancy. Food was our theme of choice (read the writing prompt from Sunday here). In particular, favourite foods, or the foods that we feel drawn to in some way.

I actually managed to write something I feel fairly happy with. I even almost* managed to get my kids writing some poetry over dinner time too, having brought up the topic and insisted it most definitely wasn’t a ploy to get them penning some words. Who can resist a few lines about a favourite food - not them apparently.

Anyway, a few for you to enjoy below:

*it wasn’t actually written down of course. That would mean admitting writing poetry is fun. And anything I think is fun is most definitely not fun. Unfortunately.

This is just to say, by William Carlos Williams

How could I not include, ‘This Is Just To Say,’ by William Carlos Williams. Image via National Poetry Library.

The Dessert I Didn’t Have by Brenda Shaughnessy found via Poetry is not a Luxury.

So simple and so delicious, The Dessert I Didn’t Have, by Brenda Shaughnessy

Alix Klingenberg

Another simple one which I enjoyed, by Alix Klingenberg, via Instagram. Although I can’t help putting the biscuits with the gravy, which is problematic for sure.

Self Portrait as So Much Potential by Chen Chen via Poetry Foundation

And finishing with this exquisite poem, this is Self-Portrait as So Much Potential by Chen Chen, found via the Poetry Foundation.

Did you find time for a little scribbling this week? Were any poems forthcoming? Or do you have a favourite ‘food’ poem that you’d like to share?

Please do. Share, share away.

Nelly x