Recipe Poems - The Chicago Poetry Center

Recipe Poems

What’s the recipe for joy, and what are the ingredients that make up who we are? This week we wrote recipe poems inspired by Recipe For Happiness, written by a former CPC student. You might need some really big bowls to mix up these recipes. Enjoy this week’s poets!

2nd Grade

Recipe for Joyness Zabella R.

One hundred thousand cups of happiness
One hundred thousand cups of sweetness
One hundred thousand cups of forgiveness
One hundred thousand cups of sports

One hundred cups of sadness

One trillion cups of YouTube and greatness
One trillion cups of goodness

3rd Grade

Recipe for Hunger Janiyah T.

First you will need
1 cup of alfredo noodles
2 cups of cream
4 cups of real parmesan cheese
10 cups of hunger
1 cup of begging your aunty for snacks
1-2 bags of shrimp and chicken
3-4 cups of love
6-22 cups of cheese sauce
20, 233 cups of all of the ingredients mixed
together
then serve and eat your poem

The Recipe for Neia Neia L.

Start with 10,000 cups of girl power
100 cups of love
10 million cups of patience
100 trillion cups of tik tok
10,000 cups of You Tube
100 cups of stealing your brother’s stuff
10 cups of playing basket ball
100 cups of funny
and blend it all together like ice cream.