Food in poetry .. your favorite?

[pamjsa]

Challenge:  What other foods have inspired poems as much as the blackberry?

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An excellent question. One of my favorites is the Robert Hass poem "Meditation at Lagunitas," which includes possibly the best lines of poetry ever written:

because there is in this world no one thing

to which the bramble of blackberry corresponds,

a word is elegy to what it signifies.

The entire poem is available in several locations online, including here:

http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/87_88/hass1.html

[Pontormo]

Pam: That is beautiful. Thank you.

The following link directs you to a poem with shared sensibilities that is about buying peaches at a fruitstand. However, click on the biography of Li-Young Lee to find two other poems, "Eating Together" and "Persimmons".

"From Blossoms".