“A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be over sophisticated. Yet it remains, cheese, milk’s leap toward immortality.” —Clifton Fadiman
Poetry Prompt:
Read your labels with creativity in mind.
Go to your refrigerator. Look at the back label on a package of cheese. Pick out a few interesting words from the label and jot them down. Craft a poem using the words you’ve gathered.
If there’s (tragically) no cheese in the icebox, find one food item that pairs nicely with cheese and create a poem from that label instead.
Thanks to everyone who participated in last week’s prompt. Here’s a haiku from Elizabeth that we fancied:
Still Life: Nuts and Cheese
Edible art, still
I want to stand, stare at your
Beauty, I am torn
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Featured photo by El Gran Dee. Creative Commons License via Flickr. Post by Heather Eure.
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Rosanne Osborne says
Havarti in the Highest
Is it the way the word rolls off the tongue
that delights the senses even before
the cheese is chosen? I’ll have Havarti,
I tell this deli sous chef, his knife poised
for a lasting imprint on the block
of buttery goodness about to climax
my roast beef sub. Danish
slices topping 100% purebred
American Angus, garnished with dark
brown English mustard. My taste buds
jealously watch the wheat roll warming,
the cheese bonding and bubbling
while my ears ring with “Havarti!”
Sandra Heska King says
Off-the-block culture
layered with passion, melting
in your Sunday wrap.