Were McIntyre, the poet laureate of cheese, still among the living, it is certain that he would have commemorated the epic (and tragic) story of the Saguenay Cheese http://www.sybertooth.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/blaylock/YaBB.pl?board=zany;action=dis...
in verse. However, in lieu of his poetical wisdom, here is Paul Marlowe's contribution to the small but growing corpus of cheese poetry: a memorial to a tonne of cheese, lost in the Saguenay fiord.


The Saguenay Cheese

Women weep and brave men sneeze
When they learn of the loss of the Saguenay Cheese.

But O that bold abyssal curd that plumbed the depths where krakens dwell,
And saw such sights as freeze men’s hearts, of which the cheese shall never tell.

Gone! Gone! Perdu! O mighty cheese, adieu!

Gone to the heavens or gone to the seas,
We’ll never know more of the Saguenay Cheese.

of late i have a summer cold with a sneeze
but, that will not stop me from gorging on cheese
morning noon or night
i must have a cheese
gouda or blarney castle or provalone please
alone or with sandwich--melted on a steak
i cannot forgo cheese, not even for cake
it's cheese in the summer
refreshing and tasty
i will always love it--
 even more than pumkin pasty
please please please for a cheese....

Check out the James McIntyre Poetry Contest at http://www.ocl.net/projects/poetrycontest/index.shtml  

This year's winner is "Elegy for a Shrinking Cheese."

Associated with this event is a "Dairy Ode" Contest (a form created by McIntyre).  Some of the entries include:

To a Vain Cheese
The Noble Cheddar
A Cheese Whiz
Ode to the Cream Separator

Fun!

This year's pre-eminent cheese verse, or opus caseum:

"A Commonwealth of Cheeses" by Paul Marlowe
http://paulmarlowe.com/pm/CheesePoetry.htm