Valentine's Day FOOD POEMS

I was delighted to visit South Camberley Primary School yesterday. We did an activity I am very fond of: writing love poems...to food! I thought I'd take the opportunity to share a few of these poems, which are of course particularly pertinent with its being Valentine's Day today. Enjoy!

Woman With a Baby

As the bus approaches its stop I notice

a woman holding a baby. She cradles it

carefully, shielding it from the rain. She looks

at it lovingly, tenderly – nothing will harm

her baby. We get a little closer and I can

see that the thing she is holding is too small

to be an infant. A puppy, perhaps? A kitten?

Her smile is soft, her gaze aglow. But no –

yet closer inspection reveals the object to be

neither flesh nor blood: she’s cradling

a phone. The woman at the bus stop

is cradling her phone. She gets on the bus,

stepping up with deliberation – careful,

slow. She takes the seat next to mine.

The microchips glisten at the back of her eyes.

Joshua Seigal 

Question Marks?

I like to use the question mark?

I just can’t seem to stop?

It is a little habit

that I cannot ever drop?

No sentence is complete for me

unless I lob some in??

Whenever I put question marks

I break out in a grin??

You may not think it necessary???

Well, I disagree???

A stanza full of question marks

is what I like to see???

Some people think I’m crazy

but they’d better not complain????

At least I’m speaking English

and I do not live in ¿¿¿¿Spain????

Joshua Seigal