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Heather

Cheese

Post by Heather » Sat Apr 04, 2015 10:14 am

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

manfredvijars

Re: Cheese

Post by manfredvijars » Sat Apr 04, 2015 7:10 pm

I'll cut some for you Heather, here - pull my finger ... :D

Heather

Re: Cheese

Post by Heather » Sat Apr 04, 2015 7:40 pm

Uh, uh, I'm on cholesterol watch Manfred. :(

I did think, hope, anticipate that someone, just someone, might take up the challenge....show that ol' G. K. Chesterton how bush poets write about cheese. :)

Heather

Re: Cheese

Post by Heather » Sat Apr 04, 2015 7:41 pm

Of course, it would be Australian made (and owned) cheese. :)

manfredvijars

Re: Cheese

Post by manfredvijars » Sat Apr 04, 2015 10:52 pm

COON of course ??

Heather

Re: Cheese

Post by Heather » Sun Apr 05, 2015 8:55 am

I think COON is American owned. I used to buy BEGA because it was still Australian owned.

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Re: Cheese

Post by David Campbell » Sun Apr 05, 2015 10:30 am

Danish Blue Dreams

Eating cheese before bed, it is said, makes you dream,
so be wary of Camembert, Bega, and Cream,
and Halloumi, Red Leicester, and Stilton, and Blue,
for a late cheesy supper will likely make you
wander off into dreamland where Limburger trees
will be growing in meadows of Emmental cheese,
’neath a Wensleydale sky where a Cheddar of birds
chirrups sweet Gorgonzolas to frolicking herds
of Ricotta beef cattle and Lancashire sheep
singing Parmesan songs that will help you to sleep.

© David Campbell 05/04/15

Heather

Re: Cheese

Post by Heather » Sun Apr 05, 2015 11:05 am

Simply delicious David! I love it. I wonder if it is the first ever poem on cheese?

Heather :D :D

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Re: Cheese

Post by Bob Pacey » Sun Apr 05, 2015 12:43 pm

Perhaps you should have called it When Poets Get Bored ? :roll: :roll: :roll:


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Re: Cheese

Post by David Campbell » Sun Apr 05, 2015 1:27 pm

I don't know about other poems, Heather, but there's that well-known song from Paint Your Wagon:

I Talk to the Cheese

I talk to the cheese
But it won’t listen to me
I talk to my Brie
But it never hears me

The cheese hasn't time
To stop, and hear what I say
I talk to my Brie
In vain

But suddenly, my words
Reach other cheeses’ ears
Pluck other cheeses’ heart
Strings too

I tell them my dreams
And while they’re listening to me
I suddenly see them
Turn Blue

I can see us on an April night
Just a Roquefort and Danablu
Sharing supper in the candlelight
With my special home-made brew

Then I'll tell them
How I pass the day
Thinking mainly how
The night would be

Then I'll try to find
The words to say
All the things they
Mean to me

I tell them my dreams
And while they’re
Listening to me
I suddenly see them
Turn Blue

You can hear Clint Eastwood singing it at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn8YubD01sk

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