Best Food Poems

Calm is all nature as a resting wheel.
The kine are couched upon the dewy grass;
The horse alone, seen dimly as I pass,
Is cropping audibly his later meal:
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Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
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Under the greenwood tree
Who loves to lie with me,
And turn his merry note
Unto the sweet bird's throat,
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Chameleons feed on light and air:
Poets' food is love and fame:
If in this wide world of care
Poets could but find the same
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Fame is a fickle food
Upon a shifting plate
Whose table once a
Guest but not
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In the sea on the whale
The fishermen threw a pike,
The whale: I am harmless while
You are hurting me deadly deep,
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Deep in our refrigerator,
there's a special place
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DOWNHILL I came, hungry, and yet not starved,
Cold, yet had heat within me that was proof
Against the north wind; tired, yet so that rest
Had seemed the sweetest thing under a roof.
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See the waters of the Yellow River leap down from Heaven, Roll away to the deep sea and never turn again! See at the mirror
in the High Hall Aged men bewailing white locks - In the morning, threads of silk, In the evening flakes of snow. Snatch the joys
of life as they come and use them to the full; Do not leave the silver cup idly glinting at the moon. The things that Heaven made
Man was meant to use; A thousand guilders scattered to the wind may come back again. Roast mutton and sliced beef will only
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He gullibly ate the fake food
Thinking that its quality was good.

Labeled with a bogus hologram
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So are you to my thoughts as food to life,
Or as sweet-seasoned showers are to the ground;
And for the peace of you I hold such strife
As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found.
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I did not follow,
Mind didn’t allow,
Hide face under pillow,
Some bitter pills to swallow,
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A pound in the slot and out comes the chain,
It's Saturday supermarket shopping again,
And so I've obtained my large wire trolley,
And when shopping, you certainly need loads of lolly!
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Every evening
When the sun is setting deep
When the cloud is turning from
Bizarre blue to orange red
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Part One


As night fell and the light glittered in the great house, the servants stood at the massive door awaiting the coming of the guests; and upon their velvet garments shown golden buttons.
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Now that we've done our best and worst, and parted,
I would fill my mind with thoughts that will not rend.
(O heart, I do not dare go empty-hearted)
I'll think of Love in books, Love without end;
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Either be a lamp
Sitting at a place,
Emitting light beams
For swarming moths' solace.
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Oh, a dainty plant is the Ivy green,
That creepeth o'er ruins old!
Of right choice food are his meals, I ween,
In his cell so lone and cold.
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How doth the little busy Bee
Improve each shining Hour,
And gather Honey all the day
From every opening Flower!
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The Health-Food Diner
No sprouted wheat and soya shoots
And Brussels in a cake,
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Some singers sing of ladies' eyes,
And some of ladies lips,
Refined ones praise their ladylike ways,
And course ones hymn their hips.
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Alone, the wild goose refuses food and drink,
his calls searching for the flock.

Who feels compassion for that single shadow
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O dear! that artful boy
Refuses me a word!
But, Sir, I shall enjoy
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Every morning in the deep woods of the concrete jungle
With my near and dear ones I sing a coarse musical,
Humans raise from their good night sleep with a frown of unpalatable
They call me ‘Crow’ and express their acerbity with a scowl,
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Babies must not eat the coal
And they must not make grimaces,
Nor in party dresses roll
And must never black their faces.
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Who said to the trout,
You shall die on Good Friday
To be food for a man
And his pretty lady?
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I sit silent and seek no solace
Search for hut and not the palace
Simple desire with no strings attached
Emotionally bound but never feel detached,
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MY future will not copy fair my past
On any leaf but Heaven's. Be fully done,
Supernal Will ! I would not fain be one
Who, satisfying thirst and breaking fast
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How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower!
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This life is sweetest; in this wood
I hear no children cry for food;
I see no woman, white with care;
No man, with muscled wasting here.
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One foot down, then hop! It's hot.
Good things for the ones that's got.
Another jump, now to the left.
Everybody for hisself.
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Is it really so depraving
I like to eat a lot?
The thought of food I’m craving
Just ties me in a knot
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No! 'twas the questing dream that first achieved her--
More sensed for knowing no material part,
More real that no false outward eye perceived her,
Too gross, but that pure eye within my heart.
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O TAN-FACED prairie-boy!
Before you came to camp, came many a welcome gift;
Praises and presents came, and nourishing food--till at last, among
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Everyday
at night
in the kitchen
a little food
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.
I lost my friend a week ago
I lost her in my living room
If you listen really really close
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Love I was shewn upon the mountain-side
And bid to catch Him ere the dropp of day.
See, Love, I creep and Thou on wings dost ride:
Love it is evening now and Thou away;
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WE can endure that He should waste our lands,
Despoil our temples, and by sword and flame
Return us to the dust from which we came;
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High in the air exposed the slave is hung,
To all the birds of heaven, their living food!
He groans not, though awaked by that fierce sun
New torturers live to drink their parent blood;
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No, Music, thou art not the 'food of Love.'
Unless Love feeds upon its own sweet self,
Till it becomes all Music murmurs of.
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The Taste of India

To North of India, come ‘chak le’
The ubiquitous Chole bhature,
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Our body is an amazing drug store
Brain, the doctor, health restores.
Administers drugs & dosages accurate,
Without side effects vital force generates.
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Harsh is my fortune, but harsher still is the fate
dealt me by my count: he flees from me,
I follow him; others long for me,
I cannot look at another man's face.
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If you manage to get one paisa,
buy food to feed your hunger,
But if you manage two,
take half and buy a flower.
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O Food, your glory is so great,
Strength of limbs you generate.

It should be of our own choice,
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As you descend, slowly, falling faster past
you this snow,
ghostly, some flakes bio-
luminescent (you plunge,
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Darkness greets the world
Humans counteract with force
Yet I see the birds
Singing and sweetly tweeting
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You are possessed.
Witch doctors believe in phantoms,
that cause your illness. But, driving out devils
can be challenging. Spirits are given away—
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Every night my prayers I say,
And get my dinner every day;
And every day that I've been good,
I get an orange after food.
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Who will in fairest book of nature know
How virtue may best lodg'd in beauty be,
Let him but learn of love to read in thee,
Stella, those fair lines which true goodness show.
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Christmas is here, Jesus to the world brought peace
Everyone is rested as kids spend time with family
Kitchens are ablaze, wives creating good ol’ soul-food
Leslie and Destra, await their turn, under the mistletoe
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Whenever I am happy
The maternal eyes stare
Who had lost her child
In the bus accident
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There's a fortune to be made in just about everything
in this country, somebody's father had to invent
everything--baby food, tractors, rat poisoning.
My family's obviously done nothing since the beginning
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The host, he says that all is well
And the fire-wood glow is bright;
The food has a warm and tempting smell,-
But on the window licks the night.
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Holi! Holi! You have come once in a year,
You come with colors to provide us cheer.
You are also known as festival of color,
You bring joy in lives instead of dolor.
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Ye aspiring ones, listen to the story of the unknown
Who lies here with no stone to mark the place.
As a boy reckless and wanton,
Wandering with gun in hand through the forest
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The roaring of the ocean has its own reason
It eats up of us each and every poison
The blowing of the wind is so soothing
The rain of the cloud is so refreshing,
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What kind of a being? Has left us in extra tension
Abnormal in thinking, sensation and motion,
Lives on ready food but chews fresh bloody flesh
Dissatisfied with peace so lives in high clash,
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Food for the body

I know of men, who do not have enough,
Lacking food and drink, their life is rough
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An ache perforates veins deep
Blood cold as moods of night
tears fall on food I eat
tears fall on food withered
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Born on the breast of the prairie, she smiles to her sire--the sun,
Robed in the wealth of her wheat-lands, gift of her mothering soil,
Affluence knocks at her gateways, opulence waits to be won.
Nuggets of gold are her acres, yielding and yellow with spoil,
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Calm
is madness right now
after two years of Covid's Closed Closet
peace is established,
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New scene

When rain god is pleased
New energy is released
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It was a buffet to remember
With a lovely Hawaiian theme
Food so fresh and flavorful
It was truly a food critic's dream
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If wolves could sing.
They would do their thing.
They would sing about chasing deer.
And never having any fear.
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There were fury, fire, bombs and bullets
Army, terrorists, death and darkness
No water, no food, only deadly dance of death
They were leaving behind their dear homes and land
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You irritate me immensely!
I dreamed that I came to you.
You sometimes wanted to rape me,
I was tired and longed for food.
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If you earn only a coin
Buy food for hunger
And if you earn two
Spend half for flower
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I kening through Astronomy Divine
The Worlds bright Battlement, wherein I spy
A Golden Path my Pensill cannot line,
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I hate you because you're taking over me,
but I love you 'cause you're making me the girl I want to be.
Why do I love you when all you do is put me down?
Making me starve 'till I fit into the smallest gown.
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The changing guests, each in a different mood,
Sit at the roadside table and arise:
And every life among them in like wise
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Food is NOT always free
if you grab it from a tree.
If the tree belongs to me,
you have stolen it, you see.
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VNquiet thought, whom at the first I bred,
Of th'inward bale of my loue pined hart:
and sithens haue with sighes and sorrowes fed,
till greater then my wombe thou woxen art.
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A rich boy from the town came to meet a farm boy in a village.
The rich boy wanted to know how the poor managed with so little.
After three days of stay in the village, the rich boy returned home.
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We live in this world under one blanket
sky is our canopy and earth is our carpet
all take the same air, water, food and nurture
yet some are happy, some are sad and some complaining?
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Yuck! Gross! I won't eat that
This food looks like a run over rat
It's green and gross, kind of icky,
It smells like a sewer and is really sticky
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The gull shall whistle in his wake, the blind wave break in fire,
He shall fulfill God's utmost will unknowing His desire;
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Belief -who makes the Annadanm offering will be blessed- is strong
The list of devotees sponsoring free lunch in the temple is too long
The temple dining hall is houseful with VIPs, invitees, hosts and guests
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When he was young, he use to look forward to a basketful of thrills.
Now he only looks forward to a basketful of pills.
He takes a pill for this and a pill for that.
Sometimes he feels like a lab rat.
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CALM is all nature as a resting wheel.
The kine are couched upon the dewy grass;
The horse alone, seen dimly as I pass,
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God is with us - Perception
Friday,14th August 2020

It is our perception
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The industrialist is having his aeroplane serviced.
The priest is wondering what he said in his sermon eight weeks ago
about tithes.
The generals are putting on civvies and looking like bank clerks.
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So are you to my thoughts as food to life,
Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground;
And for the peace of you I hold such strife
As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found;
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How much you need to live this life
How much money, how much food
How much lands and how much blood
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I HAD a fellow as my guest,
Not knowing he was such a pest,
And gave him just my usual fare;
He ate his fill of what was there,
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My heart is in the east, and I in the uttermost west—
How can I find savour in food? How shall it be sweet to me?
How shall I render my vows and my bonds, while yet
Zion lieth beneath the fetter of Edom, and I in Arab chains?
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How many bards gild the lapses of time!
A few of them have ever been the food
Of my delighted fancy,—I could brood
Over their beauties, earthly, or sublime:
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"Wondrous life!" cried Marvell at Appleton House.
Renan admired Jesus Christ "wholeheartedly."
But here dried ferns keep falling to the floor,
And something inside my head
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Praise the Lord!

"I was thirsty and You gave me something to drink.
I was hungry and You gave me food.
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Words of course are important

They are important for many.
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Ten domestic pigs
Squealing, wiggling short tails
Food fast approaching.
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When thou dost eat from off this plate,
I charge thee be thou temperate;
Unto thine elders at the board
Do thou sweet reverence accord;
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in the grim voices
these seagulls lookup for food
fishes are at high
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Food and Football
Fantastic combination,
Fans excited, thrilled,
Fun filled evening!
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THE plough that marks on Harley's field
In flying earth its print
Throws up, like death itself concealed,
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KNOWING our needs, hardly knowing our powers,
Hear how we cry to you, brothers of ours!--
Brothers in nature, pulse, passions, and pains,
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Undue Significance a starving man attaches
To Food—
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You came,

Have your breakfast, lunch and dinner
From your own food you brought with
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Mr'Perfect'

I may not be Mr perfect Dear but my clothes were all the rage
In 1952 my dear before they were worn away
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