Usually I post the poem first and explain or comment afterwards. I’m reversing it today. The National Poetry Month Challenge #8 Write 4 haiku about favorite foods, is a fun one for me. First I love the haiku. It forces the verbose to pare down the poem to the core and express it with a paucity of syllables. At the same time it demands a vivid and emotional poem be crafted. The haiku is deceptively hard yet it is the one poetry form taught in all English classes. The English version is three unrhymed lines with a syllable count of 5-7-5 for a total of 17 syllables. As for my topic, I am an All-American mixed breed. I have a goodly percentage of Germanic ancestors, along with the Irish and Jewish contingency, a smattering of English, Welsh, Russian, Eastern European, and a bit of those pesky Vikings, and a sprinkling of nearly every other nationality. That said there is a deep appreciation of the potato in my genes. Thus my topic is the potato in all its glorious forms.
Wet potato washed
Recall farmland petrichor
Earth apple boiled whole
Special occasion
Main attraction with gravy
Mashed to perfection
Yellow, russet, red
Agonizing selection
All of them taste good
Hashed, boiled, fried, or baked
Kugel is my favorite
Potato comfort
A Different Perspective 
Love that you’ve represented the potato so thoroughly in your collection of haiku. Also. I’m hungry now.
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I have a deep and abiding love for this starchy root vegetable. It is my ultimate comfort food!! I suggest a snack of tater tots!
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Great little collection, Muri! Who would have thought of doing all four Haikus about the SAME food? We grew potatoes in our garden when I was a kid, so there were potatoes on my plate every day for dinner: boiled, baked, mashed, scalloped, fried, you name it. Nowadays, potatoes are a starchy no-no, an occasional treat. I love cheese the way you love potatoes… I think you’ve seen my sonnet, a parody of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. 🙂
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Petrichor is such a lovely, earthy word; the first poem was my favorite. But kugel is ultimate potato comfort, a great note to end the series on.
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Thanks! Petrichor is a favorite word (along with syncope and pericope). Potato kugle is absolutely my favorite. My grandmother would make it for all the holidays. I am fortunate to have her recipe!!
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So pleased you like this group! There is nothing evil about a little starch (I think that the no carb trend is untenable). I love cheese too. I went on a diet and eliminated cheese – it caused me to dream about cheese…
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A friend used to make her specialty–cheesy potatoes–for every potluck at work. Best of both worlds. 🙂
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My husband’s family makes cheesy potatoes for nearly every event. Although they are good I would rather have mashed with gravy with a turkey…
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now I will have to look up kugel as I’m not familiar with that.
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It is kind of a potato pudding or casserole. There are lots of recipes on line but the best are kosher.
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I’ve only ever had egg noodle kugel. Would you share your recipe for the potato kugel?
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Absolutely! I’ll post it after April is over (got to get all my NPM challenges finished first)!
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We eat lots of potatoes. Mashed, baked, fried, grilled, hashbrowns, and many more. This year the price has jumped. Was glad for my garden bounty.
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I’ve heard that the homegrown ones keep better than the store bought ones… I wonder why.
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I think a lot of it is time of year. In the winter potatoes keep longer than in the summer for me.
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Perhaps that’s the key…
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It may be
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You left out sweet potatoes! They’ve become my favorite potato in the past few years. What can I say… I yam what I yam!
Guess what? I actually, finally, unbelievably wrote a poem and posted it! Woohoo! By my calculations, I have just enough time to make it all the way through your list if I write and post one poem a day. I’ve done it before…
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Hehe! You know I love a good sweet potato. I love your poems (even the limerick)! I believe in you – you can do it!!! I’ll be anxiously waiting to see what gems you post!
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Muri has sanctioned satisfying two or more prompts with one poem, saintvi, which has been a big help to me. See my acrostic limerick about dogs: https://justjoan42.wordpress.com/2019/04/14/another-triple-header-muri/ 🙂
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Awesome! Potatoes are a staple here and you know there are 4000 varieties.
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Yep. 4000 varieties and twice that many different ways to prepare them!!
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Yes, so many ways.
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And they are all delicious!!
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A great poem about one of my favorite foods! And now I am hungry…..
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Thanks bunches! I hope you had a potato snack!! (I like BBQ potato chips with a cottage cheese “dip”).
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My favorite chip and dip is the Ruffles with applesauce. Reminds me of apple pie!
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My first roommate in college ate applesauce with Ritz crackers – said it was just like apple pie. I thought she was a little crazy but I tried it and it wasn’t bad. I didn’t think it was nearly as good as apple pie but then again it was better than nothing.
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potatoes are the most versatile food, any which way is adored
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True and they have found their way into many different cuisines…
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most importantly, “all of them taste good”!
👍
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Thanks for the comment and the visit! Hope to see you around more often. Yes that is the most important part…
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The last one reads a bit like the Waffle House hash browns options. (This is high praise 😊) ~D
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Hehe! I’ll take that compliment!
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