The Case for Cheese

Let's hear it for cheese.

The poets have been mysteriously silent
on the subject of cheese. ~G.K. Chesterton.

When Chesterton said what he said
he may have held a piece of bread
and thought about a verse for rye
and wondered if cheese verse was nigh.

He may have thought about the milk,
a texture that is smooth as silk.
And if cheese was allowed its say
it might just speak about its whey.

Then he along with poets too
might focus on a cheese fondue
or cheese that’s sprinkled from a jar
or cheesy wishes on a star.

Perhaps we should not shun it so
for cheese in verse seems apropos
because it has its whey for sure
and after all it does endure.

Mysterious the silent pen!
You’d think that even now and then
some poetry on cheese would start
in total or at least in part.

And so we rack poetic brain
confused as why poets refrain
from adding cheese to verse all right--
along the way, perhaps we might.


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Writer’s Cramp
July 15, 2014