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A recipe, a 17th century painting, a poem, a reflection, a bowl of pears! Welcome to Stewed Pears! I’m a home cook and writer who began this site when my daughter asked for my recipes. As the site grew, I began to think more about how food binds across generations – of stories, family, memory, preservation. And so, I’ve written 100 (so far!) original poems in response to historic artworks that feature food or domestic life. Thank you for reading.

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Peasants Eat Herring, Bread and Butter #poetry #e

Peasants Eat Herring, Bread and Butter #poetry #ekphrasticpoetry #poem #art #food

NEVER MAY THE FRUIT BE PICKED Never, never may th

NEVER MAY THE FRUIT BE PICKED Never, never may the fruit be plucked from the bough
And gathered into barrels.
He that would eat of love must eat it where it hangs.
Though the branches bend like reeds,
Though the ripe fruit splash in the grass or wrinkle on the tree,
He that would eat of love may bear away with him
Only what his belly can hold,
Nothing in the apron,
Nothing in the pockets.
Never, never may the fruit be gathered from the bough
And harvested in barrels.
The winter of love is a cellar of empty bins,
In an orchard soft with rot. –Edna St.Vincent Millay (1892-1950) #poem #poetry #food #foodblogger

A PEACH, SEVILLE With a doubled red blush, expone

A PEACH, SEVILLE With a doubled red blush,
exponential, slow ripening growth,
a few months from bloom to harvest,
firmness, meltiness, juiciness,
and sucrose, fructose, glucose
balancing out malate, citrate, quinate,
aroma-filled by lactones and esters,
texture and size set at cellular basis,
boasting the rosaceae family of hormones,
a genetic weighty soft abundance,
my heart was a peach –
raw, juiced, jellied, canned. ©elsp 2026
#poetry #poem #ekphrasticpoetry
More: https://stewedpears.com/a-peach-seville-a-poem/

Herbs do a lot of heavy lifting. Herb Week 2026 Ma

Herbs do a lot of heavy lifting.
Herb Week 2026 May 2-9 #foodie #food #herbs #foodblogger Images: Pexels
Music: YouTube Library "Swing House", RKVC
Editing: stewedpears.com

My original ekphrastic poem. Distelfink ©elsp 2026

My original ekphrastic poem.
Distelfink
©elsp 2026
#poem #poetry #poet DISTELFINK

MIGRANT MOTHER Migrant Mother My mother made me d

MIGRANT MOTHER Migrant Mother
My mother made me drink pea soup
Until I saw flowers and leaves
At the bowl’s base. Her home-made food.
Ungrateful child, I couldn’t see
This product of anxiety,
The long hours my poor mother
Put in at home, at work, to have to plead
With a fussy child to eat her supper. ©elsp 2025
Image in the public domain
More: https://stewedpears.com/migrant-mother-a-poem/
#poem #poems #poetry #ekphrasticpoetry #food #art #foodie
#

Who doesn't love apple pie? National Apple Pie Da

Who doesn't love apple pie? National Apple Pie Day – May 13. #applepie #apple #food #foodie

Super easy pear tart. Recipe: https://stewedpears.

Super easy pear tart. Recipe: https://stewedpears.com/pear-tart/
#recipe #food #pear PEAR TREE Silver dust
lifted from the earth,
higher than my arms reach,
you have mounted,
O silver,
higher than my arms reach
you front us with great mass; no flower ever opened
so staunch a white leaf,
no flower ever parted silver
from such rare silver; O white pear,
your flower-tufts
thick on the branch
bring summer and ripe fruits
in their purple hearts. by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) from Sea Garden (1916), accessed via Project Gutenberg
#poetry #poem #poemoftheday

A COSEY CORNER Three apples by the fire Their ch

A COSEY CORNER Three apples by the fire
Their cheeks, red and ripe He told her she was as fine
And fiery as a ripe, red apple Her cheeks warm by fire
While her apple ripens ©elsp 2025
#poem #poems #food #foodlover #foodstagram #art
More: https://stewedpears.com/a-cosey-corner-a-poem/

All the world's a stage, and all the fruit merely

All the world's a stage, and all the fruit merely players. #food #foodstagram #foodlover #poetry #poems #artlover
Image in the public domain
Unknown artist. Bowl of Fruit c 1830. oil on canvas. Source: https://www.nga.gov/artworks/59932-bowl-fruit

THOUGHTS by Myra Viola Wilds What kind of thought

THOUGHTS
by Myra Viola Wilds What kind of thoughts now, do you carry
In your travels day by day
Are they bright and lofty visions,
Or neglected, gone astray? Matters not how great in fancy,
Or what deeds of skill you’ve wrought;
Man, though high may be his station, Is no better than his thoughts. Catch your thoughts and hold them tightly,
Let each one an honor be;
Purge them, scourge them, burnish brightly,
Then in love set each one free. #poem #poetry #blackberry #fruit #food Poem and image in the public domain. Botanical illustration: Blackberry (Rubus Fruticosus Hyb Kittaniny) chromolithograph plates by Abraham Jacobus Wendel. Digitally enhanced from rawpixel's 1879 edition plates of "Nederlandsche flora en pomona"

WILD STRAWEBERRIES by Jean Blewett The glad, glad

WILD STRAWEBERRIES
by Jean Blewett The glad, glad days, and the pleasant ways -
Ho! for the fields and the wildwood!
The scents, the sights, and the dear delights -
Ho! for our care-free childhood! Heavy the air with a fragrance rare,
Strawberries ripe in the meadow,
Luscious and red where the vines are spread
Thickly in sun and shadow. The glad, glad days, and the pleasant ways,
Chorus of wild birds calling:
"Strawberry ripe! Ho! strawberry ripe!"
From dawn till the dew is falling. #poem #poetry #strawberries #poemoftheday #fruit Poem and image in the public domain.
Botanical illustration:: Aardbezien (strawberry) chromolithograph plates by Abraham Jacobus Wendel. Digitally enhanced from rawpixel's 1879 edition plates of "Nederlandsche flora en pomona."

One of the most important root vegetables in the w

One of the most important root vegetables in the world - the humble carrot. International Carrot Day is coming up soon on April 4! This year bringing in the Easter bunny. #carrots #internationalcarrotday
#celebratecarrots

THE FAIR Drums. Dance. Monkey. Paris dreams In ev

THE FAIR Drums.
Dance.
Monkey.
Paris dreams
In evening haze.
He offers Eve a ripened pear
and couples everywhere turn to each other and kiss. ©elsp 2025 #poem #poetry #ekphrasticpoem #fib #fibonaccipoem #art

Still Life with Ham Ekphrastic poem in response t

Still Life with Ham Ekphrastic poem in response to a Rousseau painting #poem #poetry

Nini in the Garden An ekphrastic poem in response

Nini in the Garden An ekphrastic poem in response to a Renoir painting #poem #poetry #poemoftheday

RAINY DAY IN CAMP An ekphrastic poem in response t

RAINY DAY IN CAMP
An ekphrastic poem in response to a Winslow Homer painting #poem #poetry #ekphrasticpoem

On days it's tough BREAK THE CYCLE - a #poem #poe

On days it's tough BREAK THE CYCLE - a #poem
#poetry #ekphrasticpoem #poemoftheday

VISITING RENOIR #poem #poetry #poemoftheday The

VISITING RENOIR #poem #poetry #poemoftheday The word challenge in these poems is ekphrasis and form.

Mangia bene 🍝 ridi spesso 😂 ama molto ❤️ ... Nati

Mangia bene 🍝
ridi spesso 😂
ama molto ❤️ ... National Ravioli Day - March 20 #pasta #ravioli #italy #food #cooking #italianfood #nationalravioliday

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