Poems | The Food Futurist

I am almost finished with the book, which will have Down to Earth as its title. I am going to make a French version as well, the title of which will be Vers de Terre.

The book contains 90 poems about food and farming. As a strong believer in the benefits of using both brain hemispheres, I composed poems that range to more “classic” themes to themes dealing with new technologies in food and agriculture. There is something for everyone in these poems.

I divided the content into six sections (click here to see the table of contents):

Fields: poems about plants and agriculture
Pastorale: poems about animals and animal husbandry
Characters: poems about people from food and agriculture
Edibles: poems about food
Destinations: poems about countries and their foods
Gravitas: poems about serious subjects

I also mixed many poem formats:

Sonnet, because of its elegance and structure
Haiku, for its powerful and concise impact
Villanelle, because it is so musical and light
Limerick, just to try to be funny
Rondeau, for classicism
Cinquain, for modernity and concision
Free style, to let my mind wander without the rigidity of predetermined format, which I did mostly in rhymes but sometimes without rhymes but for a feel of rhythm and visual or sensory impressions

Next to the simple pleasure of poetry, I wrote these poems in a way that can be conducive to read and discuss them with an educational function in mind.