We use food for celebration, to comfort ourselves, and to give as gifts; it even jogs our memory with the power of aroma. Naturally, writing or reading about food stirs emotion, and makes us hungry. Enjoy these pieces about food, glorious food, and let your tummy rumble for at least a few minutes while you digest the meaning.
Soup’s Medicine
I heard you were down
Did your mom make chicken soup?
Can I bring some by?
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Trash Food
Ack! Big Mac wrapper
Greasy paper peeled from skin
Spike it and trash it
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Beans
Snap both green ends off
Bacon, Garlic, Potato
Long smokey simmer
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Pizza
Brown bubbly cheese
Melange of mushrooms
Lingering scent
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Butter
Sweet and savory
Melted glistening golden
Drizzle lavishly
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Comfort Food
Childhood favorite
Creamy, served over noodles
Heavy paprika
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Flavor of the Week
Scent, flavor, texture
Allure of the exotic
Nostalgic comfort
Nourishment or gluttony
Ingesting or inhaling
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Strawberry Red
Saccharinity
Stained lips and sticky fingers
Sunny summer days
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Orange Juice
Witches acid brew
Giant metal cauldrons stew
Squeeze fruit with your hands
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Yellow Watermelon
Delicate, floral
Lingering on my palate
Apricot, honey
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Green Salad
Chop broccoli and
Celery — dice cucumber and
Slice kale — add fresh herbs
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Blueberry Pancakes
Sunday tradition
Distributed evenly
Warm gushing berries
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Indigo Grains
Precious, forbidden
Colorful toothsome porridge
Chewy purple cakes
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Violet Pastilles
Botanical treat
Palest lilac hue entice
Fairy breath tonic
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Gluten-Free For Me
Ground almond cookie
Twice toasted, oven roasted
Thirsty for coffee
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Bis-cot-ee
Crumbles and crunches
Dunks perfectly hot or cold
Recklessly tempting
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Anniverscoti
Artisan flavors
Pistachio and almond
Chocolate; dark, white
Shattered peppermint candies
Cinnamon and nonpareils
K.B. Silver
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K.B. Silver
K.B. Silver has poems published in magazine Wishbone Words, and lit journals: Sheepshead Review, New Note Poetry, Twisted Vine, Avant Appa[achia, Plants and Poetry, recordings in Stanza Cannon, and pieces in Wingless Dreamer anthologies.
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CH 20~ Party Down
Argento’s ninth (eighteenth in earth years) Birthday came and went Thursday, the thirteenth, and he’d already received his father’s gift, if you could call it that. You had to commit a fairly serious infraction to be cut off; the Arch-Baron was keeping up appearances and maintaining his own reputation as much as any sense of love or attachment to Argento with his “gift.”
By K.B. Silver Exclusive • 7 days ago
Comments (2)
Wonderfully done, and you've made me hungry, too lol
Mmmm pizza and almond cookies. Wish I could have some now. Loved your Haikus!