No World Without Cheese
A Poem Paying (Fr)’omage to Cheeses of the World
A world without cheese is a dark barren place, With no smells to delight, no new tastes to chase. If there was no Camembert, just what would one do? Without gruyere or gouda, there would be no fondue. With no Cheddar or Stilton, the Brits would be stumped, And Wallace and Gromit would be down in the dumps. If Limberger and Roquefort disappeared with no trace, It would deprive our olfactory sense of their grace, The delicious, sumptuous stench of these cheeses, Blowing on soft Tyrolian breezes. And what of Paneer, Chhurpi, and Kesong Puti delights? These incredible yak-carabao milk, tasty bites, So deliciously soft and tenderly made Without them, the world would not be the same.
It’s Halloumi and Herve, Harvarti and Quark, That put a real spark right into my heart, The melty Arbertam, Bocconcini, Mozzarella, On a grill plate, a pizza, or even a salad, It’s just not possible to live life without cheese, Even lactose intolerant are easy to please, With lactose-free milk to make Trappist monks swoon, Every person on earth leaping over the moon, To eat cheesy goodness, Brie, Bergkäse, Comté Not many in the world need too much of a prompting, To chow down on a cheese platter, any time of the day Cheese lovers of the world see no other way!
In case you didn’t know, there’s a clever cheese trick, The Formaggio di Fossa translates to Cheese of the Pit! They make it and pop it down into the earth, To dig it up when it’s ready, it really is worth Getting your tastebuds on this little gem, You’ll be rolling all the way home again! How could I forget those cheeses that smoke, Bandel, Suhi Sir, Prgica! No joke! That nice smokey flavour made with wood and fire, Is really what my heart and tastebuds desire! Is it possible, really, us poets have missed, Waxing lyrical about cheese? To be true artists? No longer, methinks, this is the case, On POM now, we have our poetic, cheesy embrace!
Cheese. Nothing quite like it! Thanks for reading! (written with a little help from this list.) Great challenge, Christina M. Ward ❤
Lisa writes poetry and eats cheese. Sometimes at the same time! She also reads books. If you’d like to keep in touch, sign up for Northern Notes.
