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Cheese Poetry: The Cheesiest Poetry Prompt

By Heather Eure 9 Comments

In popular culture, the word cheesy is not always about the fromage. It pulls us back to the funny and sometimes cringe-worthy moments of our past.

Cheesy can be defined as: informal, cheap, unpleasant, or blatantly inauthentic.
A big cheesy grin. Cheesy motel rooms.

We’ve seen it, we’ve experienced it, and sometimes… we’ve been it.

No one is immune to the cheese.

Poetry Prompt:

Think back and write a poem about the cheesiest moment you can remember.Take a spin on a tacky ride at a county fair. Laugh with friends over a B-movie. Wear the awful tie you were given years ago. Or listen again, to that dreadful pickup line: “Hey, I lost my number, can I have yours?”

Write your poem in the present— as if it’s happening right now. Use vibrant words and neon-colored imagery.

 

Thanks to everyone who participated in last week’s poetry prompt. Here is part of a poem, a remembrance of childhood lunchtime, from Richard:

that grilled cheese is the one thing
a kid ought to find, sliced from
corner to corner,
with a pickle on the side.
Chicken soup is OK,
when you’ve been sick with the flu,
but I been out back with some
pretty bad dudes, like rustlers,
robbers and all evil forces,
with a gun made of wood
and brooms for my horses.
—by Richard Maxson

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Featured photo by Luca Nebuloni. Creative Commons License via Flickr. Post by Heather Eure.

 

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Heather Eure
Heather Eure
Heather Eure has served as the Poetry Editor for the late Burnside Collective and Special Projects Editor for us at Tweetspeak Poetry. Her poems have appeared at Every Day Poems. Her wit has appeared just about everywhere she's ever showed up, and if you're lucky you were there to hear it.
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Comments

  1. SimplyDarlene says

    April 28, 2014 at 11:06 am

    That poem by Richard is awesome. I think one of my all-time favorites.

    Kudos!

    Reply
  2. Laura Brown says

    April 28, 2014 at 4:48 pm

    This really happened.

    Too Cool to Be Cheesy

    At restaurant,
    I bite the ends
    off cornbread
    sticks, stand
    them upright.
    “Ponehenge,”
    I pronounce.
    “That’s corny,
    Mom!” daughter
    says — then
    claps a hand
    over her own
    horrified mouth.

    Reply
    • Donna says

      April 28, 2014 at 5:38 pm

      LOL! 😀 That’s funny!

      Reply
    • Heather Eure says

      May 1, 2014 at 1:37 pm

      I can picture the expression. Good stuff.

      Reply
  3. Sandra Heska King says

    April 28, 2014 at 9:43 pm

    Chicken soup. Ha! Thinking Richard would have preferred cowboy stew. And wouldn’t a really tough guy eat that sandwich with all corners intact? 😉

    Reply
  4. Richard Maxson says

    May 5, 2014 at 9:29 am

    Thanks for posting my poem. Sandra, I’m one of those Cowboys like Sugarfoot, but instead of a volume of the law, I might have a copy of Leaves of Grass.:)

    Reply
  5. gassingon says

    March 3, 2015 at 4:34 pm

    Oh cheese
    you are so pretty
    you everything I long
    I really want to eat you up
    tell me is this wrong?

    Reply
  6. gassingon says

    March 3, 2015 at 7:16 pm

    Oh cheese
    you are so pretty
    you’re everything I long
    I really want to eat you up
    tell me is this wrong?

    Reply

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