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Hooray for Pleasurable Potato Chips

An Epulaeryu Poem for Junk Food Day

By Michelle Liew Tsui-LinPublished about a year ago Updated about a year ago 1 min read
Hooray for Pleasurable Potato Chips
Photo by Esperanza Doronila on Unsplash

This is for Mikeydred's Truly July challenge. A few more days to go! Do join the fun here!

Chunky cheeseburgers. Pleasurable pizzas. Fabulous fried chicken. Junk food - can't live with it, can't live without it. 

It's junk food day today, a day to give yourself a break fom that weight loss routine and embrace YOLO (You Only Live Once).

It typically represents comfort, indulgence, and pleasure, but we all know that it can be too much of a good thing - overindulgence manifests just the opposite. 

But celebrate the day with a packet of potato chips - you've earned it. Enjoy this epulaeryu poem. 

Meek potato chip delights

Delectable sin

Eases with savoury taste

Relieving flavour succors

Induges and misleads

Pleasure and perish

In giant

mount. 

Note:

An epulaeryu is a 7 line poem that surrounds the theme of food, typically a celebration of a culinary delight. If you want to try it, the structure is:

Line 1 :7 syllables

Line 2: 5

Line 3: 7

Line 4 : 5

Line 5 : 5

Line 6: 3

Line 7: 1

inspirational

About the Creator

Michelle Liew Tsui-Lin

Hi, i am an English Language teacher cum freelance writer with a taste for pets, prose and poetry. When I'm not writing my heart out, I'm playing with my three dogs, Zorra, Cloudy and Snowball.

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  • Dharrsheena Raja Segarranabout a year ago

    Omgggg, this made me sooo hungry hahahahahaha. I've never heard of this poem before but you executed it brilliantly!

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