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Cheese and Crackers - contest challenge to write a poem about cheese

Posted on June 7th, 2007 by Shewolf

Once all words about sorrow are used up
and spit out on nib of pen,

when every phrase about love has been listed
on that very last valentine,

as last stanza of pity has been pathetically punctuated
with last martyrdom,

as last measured rhythm, rhyme and form
are as depleted as recycled toilet paper,

after there are no more poems to be written
about pastoral scenes, angsty oceans,
purple mountains,crooked walks down death valleys,
sailing on prism’d ponds, blood-letting,
angry spates over another dust-biter,
births and deaths, sunsets and sunrises,
children and adults, elders and God …
then, and only then

will I write about cheese.

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