Many times food is used in poems. Sometimes the poem is entirely a description of food or food is used to represent a human experience.
NOTE: Many students have written simile poems so far. I'd like to see poems like the ones I've posted below that write about the food in a descriptive way.
Read the following famous food poems:
"Blackberry-Picking" by Seamus Heaney:
Hhttp://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/181384
"This is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams:
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/just-say
"Italian Food" by Shel Silverstein:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/20/shel-silverstein_n_972217.html?1362426228
Read these poems and then create your own ten line or more poem using a food item. Hungry yet?? :-)