#food poems on Hello Poetry

Datore Fargo Aug 2023

I cried,
while eating,
a cheeseburger,
and no,
it didn’t,
make it,
salty.
Right after,
I realized,
they forgot,
pickles,
but I didn’t,
really have time,
to care.
Could have,
ordered,
a milkshake,
but I don’t,
feel like,
mowing,
my yard,
or talking,
to boys.
I cried,
while eating,
a cheeseburger,
but at least,
it had,
bread,
to soak up,
the tears.

I cried while eating a cheeseburger. Sadly this one is somewhat true. My new meds make it unable for me to eat and I literally cried trying to eat a cheeseburger. Is this rock bottom? Pretty sure.

#metaphor #imagery #depression #sad #anxiety #funny #humor #food

Lux Aug 2023

Bulimia

Eat as much as you can fit,
then throw up every last bit.
Be quiet so no one hears,
when you’re done wipe all your tears.

Just once more and I’ll stop,
avoid every single food shop.
Shove a toothbrush down your throat,
watch the previously eaten food float.

Thoughts of getting fat making you feel sick,
throw up what you ate you can’t get thick.

#eatingdisorder #mentalhealth #ed #bulimia #food #mentalillness

Emma Jul 2023

unfulfilled

so empty despite
the grains and flow of the milk
i hunger once more

3 years since i posted anything, my bad.

#haiku #food #hungry #milk

The Poet's Progress Jun 2023

Fast Like Jesus

There once was a spirit-filled pastor
Who fasted like Jesus, his master:
For forty days lasted
A fast that he fasted
While wanting the fast to go faster.

#lord #god #almighty #jesus #christ #fast #pastor #food #limerick #christian

Michael Murphy Jun 2023

Sandwich

I wish we were a sandwich
Simple would suffice

Smooshed between the slices
with you would be so nice

You could be my jelly
your sweet as sweet can be

I am simply nuts for you
Crunchy PB's the one for me

We go so great together
I know you feel it too

I offer you this sandwich
to show that I love you

I don't know.

#love #food #happy

Michael Apr 2023

Mystery Meat

Mystery Meat

You'll find it sometimes
in what you eat.
What it is, you might ask?
It's Mystery Meat!
Smells kinda weird,
and looks just like ****.
I don't want a dollop.
No, not even a scoop.
I don't even want it in Mystery Soup.

What would Gordon Ramsay say?

#food #culinary #bad #cooking #funny

Mark Wanless Dec 2022

haiku 22/11/25d

fat squirrel move slow
warm sun brown leaves food close now
ignorance craving

#haiku #squirrel #leaves #food

monique ezeh Nov 2022

sunday morning

Twin glasses of orange juice, froth quietly fizzling out
A plate of turkey bacon piled overzealously high

I would cook you French toast every day, if you'd let me.

Fresh croissants from a bakery down the street
Halved strawberries drizzled with honey

I'll sprinkle cinnamon in our coffee, just like my grandmother used to.

I don't know much of love, but I know this:
When the sun breaks through my kitchen window,
I hope you'll be sitting at the table.

#food #breakfast #cooking #love #sunday #sundays #morning #mornings #family #friends

calypso Oct 2022

heartbreak

every bit, every tiny bit
i can feel the elephant foot through
my chest, there is
little to no breath, can i stop?
god, if there is anything for me
please don’t make it wait longer
tell my future i won’t be coming
earth is not my place, not anywhere i’ve been
this is too much
half my day i want to scream on the top of my lungs
for help, for solitude, for no one
why am i not heard yet?

maybe i should tell someone
that my room is a mess like my head
and i can’t keep it still, slowly filling my hands
with anything i can find, i wont rest
i cant rest
i can’t let me go
i have to become my future
i promised i won’t go
i promised things i can’t keep
just let me go, my lungs have
and the blood swells my chest
my eyes aren’t smiling
im sorry im not joyful like i used to be

so joyful, it killed me.

its not you, i promise

#elephant #food #chest #breath #stop #god #anything #wait #future #earth

Steve Page Oct 2022

Yogurt in the fridge

'There's yogurt in the fridge.'
There's always strawberry yogurt
in the fridge.
When all else is lost
there's speckled bananas,
there's stale rich teas
and there's week-old,
****,
pale pink
yogurt in my fridge.

there's times when there's little in the fridge, but mashed banana, crumbled biscuit and yogurt is an okay meal.

#food #family