Need Poems About Bread Please

[Ann]

Can anyone help with any poems (preferaby humorous) mentioning bread please or subjects relating to bread, types of, diets etc.

I am organising a "bread-tasting" evening with all kinds of different types of bread to sample (with salad, and nice things to spread on bread etc) and I want to do a bread quiz (I've already done that) interspersed with some poems or rhymes about bread. I looked in Pam Ayres and Spike Milligan's extensive range but found nothing. Can anyone help please? Not much on internet either ........... Many thanks!

[TheWinner]

Hi Ann, there are tons on the internet, quotes, poems, etc. It depends on what you are looking for, some are a bit too heavy. Google: poem+bread

Here is just one link to start you off (mainly quotes)
http://www.breadtopia.com/bread-quotes/

[Mamyalynne]

The Bread Poem
I want to make some bread
I want to make some bread
It's not a cake I want to make
I want to make some bread

I want to knead the dough
I want to knead the dough
Then bake it slow and watch it grow
I want to knead the dough

I want to let it cool
I want to let it cool
Then take some for my lunch to school
I want to let it cool

I want to slice the loaf
I want to slice the loaf
I want it sliced and cut real nice
I want to slice the loaf

Perhaps I'll grill some toast
Perhaps I'll grill some toast
It's what I like to grill the most
Perhaps I'll grill some toast

Or sandwiches with ham
Or sandwiches with ham
Or sandwiches with ham not jam
Or sandwiches with ham

I might prefer cheese spread
I might prefer cheese spread
What could I spread upon bread?
I might prefer cheese spread

Then I'll eat it all up
Then I'll eat it all up
Drink orange with it from a cup
Then I'll eat it all up

So I can make more bread
So I can make more bread
It's not more cake I want to make
So I can make more bread

[Baldric]

I eat toast by day,
I eat toast by night.
Now that's living on the breadline.

[AB Editor]

Afternoon Ann - I can't find anything very good, there's this: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/12/14/performance-poet-simon-mole_n_2301393.html which I found after a quick search (it's not particularly good either, but I always like poetry being read out)

[TheWinner]

Here is a "funnyish" poem about bread.

http://www.cccpworkshops.co.uk/poems/183-the-bread-poem.html

[TheWinner]

while posting, its the same as mamya.

[society]

Who makes bread
Hard like lead
I do, I do said Fred

[AB Editor]

I am not sure this is related, beyond the line "baker man is baking bread" :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymdssZOAx3Q

[EDDIE51]

Little Tommy Tucker sang for his supper
What shall we give him
Brown bread and butter.

[AB Editor]

This Bread I Break - Dylan Thomas

This bread I break was once the oat,
This wine upon a foreign tree
Plunged in its fruit;
Man in the day or wine at night
Laid the crops low, broke the grape's joy.

Once in this time wine the summer blood
Knocked in the flesh that decked the vine,
Once in this bread
The oat was merry in the wind;
Man broke the sun, pulled the wind down.

This flesh you break, this blood you let
Make desolation in the vein,
Were oat and grape
Born of the sensual root and sap;
My wine you drink, my bread you snap.

... probably not what you're after either!

[AB Editor]

OK, here we go:

There once was a baker, Lenore,
Who’d been baking three decades or more.
But she quit. When asked why,
She responded, “Hate pie!”
You’d think she’d have noticed before.

http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2010/04/14/half-baked-humor/

[AB Editor]

Oh, and make sure you look at the comments to find one you like! Like this one:

There once was a baker, Lenore
Whose husband would very loudly snore
She took two different doughs
Stuck them into his nose
And Lenore’s husband, alas, is no more.

[bookbinder]

http://allpoetry.com/poems/about/bread
http://www.abuddhistlibrary.com/Buddhism/H%20-%20World%20Religions%20and%20Poetry/Poetry/Pablo%20Neruda/Ode%20to%20Bread/Ode%20to%20bread,%20Pablo%20Neruda.htm
http://seapoetry.wordpress.com/2011/03/18/on-bread-and-baking/
http://www.tastearts.com/tag/bread-poems/
http://greenvillebreadcompany.wordpress.com/category/the-poetry-of-bread/

[McMouse]

On the day that I wed
I couldn't find bread,
So later that day
I had a roll in the hay.

[Frank97]

There once was an old man called Fred
A baker of terrible bread
His buns were all stale
And he stank of ale
So by now, he's probably dead

[EDDIE51]

This was originally a Welsh poem , here is the English version that I knew from school. It is about wheat , from which bread is made , the words are particularly fitting in view of your user name Ann
http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=8424#1665053
My school music teacher described it as one of the most beautiful love songs ever written and I have to say I agree.

[EDDIE51]

Here is the song sung in Welsh , but the English words fit just as well.

[loulou111]

After you wrap your bread, add this poem:

Thank you for...
Always "rising" to the occasion
Never letting things rub against your "grain"
Being their when I "knead" you
No matter how you "slice" it, you're a "cut" above the rest!

[Ann]

Thanks everyone - and there was I thinking Crumbs nobody will know any! ;)

[Tilly2]

Hi, Ann,
Google 'The Ballad of the Breadman'
It's a bit more serious than some of the others.
I am using my tablet and don't know how to attach a link.