One of the things that really bugs me about modern day society in the United States is the misuse of the term dinner to the detriment of "supper". Supper is as old as the English language, and means the evening meal. Dinner is the meal that we eat during the MIDDLE of the day. Lunch is a light meal that people partake of BETWEEN meals. Fortunately, no one has yet found a way to demean and minimize breakfast. Humor is appreciated if used appropriately.
I would like to see some poems from people who still know how to speak English, and who recognize that supper is important, not only as a word for the evening meal, but as a cultural icon in English. Too many of the young people nowadays don't even know what "The Last Supper" was, even though there's a very famous painting by that name. When I was a kid, Jim Reeves had a song out called "Suppertime", which is still one of my favorite songs. (And YES, I own the album and have the song on my computer ITunes list as well.)
Please do not write religious poems on this theme though. Supper is not a religious term. It's a good old Anglo-Saxon word that modern society seems to have forgotten.
Please remember that spelling, grammar and punctuation are important in poetry as they are in any good writing.
Good luck and have fun.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on June 9
- Rewards: Gold: 600, Silver: 200, Bronze: 100, Honorable mention: 3 people
- Final notes: Well, another contest bit the dust, with far too few entries for the points I am spending. I don't know what's wrong with people on this site. I thought of extending the contest to see if I'd get any more entries, but it didn't seem likely to change things much.
Anyway, thanks to those who did enter and good luck with your writing in future.
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When we gather for the evening meal,
It always brings to mind.• Commented on by judge. [remove] -
It's bread and jam, a cup of tea, an orange and some cake,
No better form of supper for a man;• Commented on by judge. [remove] -
Evening's wisdom comes at supper time
Haunted past and futures mingle to pine• Viewed by judge. [remove] -
Long days in dusty summer
following the plough,• Commented on by judge. [remove]
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by lifeattacked.ilived 21 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 8 12:23 AM• Commented on by judge.
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Interesting! When I was young, back on the farm, there really was no such thing as an evening dinner because we did tend to have our main meal at midday. But, it was the done thing among city folks to call those meals "lunch" and "supper". Now I have started to think of the evening meal as "supper" because I tend to eat quite late and it's informal. In fact, I don't give it a name at all!
Maybe I should be putting it all this in a poem and I might just do that.
I heard you had been ill. Hope you are feeling better. -
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Perhaps you should.
No, I'm not feeling much better, but yes, a bit. The new medicines don't like each other, so it's back and forth and back and forth until I'm dizzy from that alone.
I think it's a sacrilege to change the names of the meals we eat because people tend to forget what's important in life and constantly yammer for new, new, new. -
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I agree my friend. Supper is the last meal of the day. "Come home come home its supper time" I remember that one too.
Sorry your not any better, youve been fighting that for so long. -
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Thanks.
It's just the way life is. The older you get, the more that goes wrong.
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There is a way to demean breakfast
Muesli!!!!
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Unfortunately ...
I don't know what "muesli" is.
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How about "brunch"? (Not as a subject but as a word?)
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Actually ...
brunch is a combination of breakfast and lunch that "society" types employ for a fashionably late breakfast, i.e., about 10-11 o'clock. It hasn't got much to do with everyday living.
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I have supper in the icebox. I think I was about 15 before I realized that the real name for that "icebox" was "refrigerator." But I'm getting old, the son of a man and woman who lived before the refrigerator and even before they had electric lights. So yes, I know supper is the evening meal and dinner is the noontime one. But lunch? "We were too poor to have lunch. That was for the city folk.
Someone sent me the link because they know I use "supper" instead of dinner. I hope it's a successful contest.
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Well, I hope ...
you are able to write something for the contest.
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im amused that you feel so strongly on this topic. I get this way with people who misuse the english language too.
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And well you should.
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