Ode to Pizza

Ode to Pizza

Oh pizza,

you give my mouth a greasy bath.

You are lovely in all your glory.

You sizzle right out of the oven

like you’re bashfully begging to be in my mouth.

When I dream, I dream about you.

If I could, I would freestyle rap about you.

You are cheesy like this ode.

When I think—I rarely do—it’s about you.

Oh Pizza,

I will now put millions of you into my freezer.

Duncan Ness was a student in Gerrit Hansen’s Seventh Grade English Class in 2023.

Odes: Long lyric poems praising someone or something and following different kinds of stanza patterns. If you create a fun ode, send it to me and you may be published in Sharing Stories. Contact Ariele at ariele@comcast.net.

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