We Feast on Poetry

The theme for February’s meeting was food poems. 

Updated our little Web site be

With notes from our last reverie

Of dressing and undressing free

And of mystery that perplexes me.

Our next meeting already set

On February 24 at 4 don’t fret.

A light repast awaits, you can bet.

Have I disappointed yet?

Then while our appetites we sate

With abundance from the plate

We shall give over to our fate.

With poems about food, let us celebrate.

 Here are the poems that we read. Thank you for all your contributions. Here’s my tribute to you in the style of William Carlos Williams.

This Is What I Say
I have updated
the site
that is on
the Internet

and which
you were probably
waiting
to read

Thank you
Your poems were delicious
so sweet
and so bold

Ben Jonson (1572-1637) – bio

Inviting a Friend to Supper

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) – bio

This Is Just to Say – audio

To a Poor Old Woman  – audio

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) – bio

Feast

D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) – bio

Figs

Laura Riding (1901-1999) – bio

Another Apple

Donald Hall, U.S. poet laureate  (1928- )

Summer Kitchen

Wang Ping (1957- ) – bio

Crab and Catfish

Robert Southey (1774-1843) – bio

To a Goose

Ogden Nash (1902-1971) – bio

The Clean Plater

Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) – bio

Ode to Tomatoes

Ode to Maize

Ode to an Onion

Jack Prelutsky (1940- ) – bio

Deep in Our Refrigerator

Kim Addonizio (1954- ) – bio

Eating Together

Shel Silverstein (1930-1999) – bio

Point of View

Frank Jacobs – bio

If Walt Whitman Had Written Humpty Dumpty

Carol Muske-Dukes (1945- ) – bio

The Invention of Cuisine

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