Friday, December 10, 2010

Big Tent Prompt

The Fruit Company Glee Club

Gala & Fuji crooned, “An apple a day…”
The orange trilled a juicy refrain.
Raspberries sang a tuneful buffet:
in the Chorus of the Garden’s Food Chain.
   
The orange trilled a juicy refrain.
Red grape harmonized with white
in the Chorus of the Garden’s Food Chain -
this was a ripe sound bite.

Red grape harmonized with white.   
Star Fruit played the diva coloratura.
This was a ripe sound bite,
a fruit smoothie full of bravura.

Star Fruit played the diva coloratura,
while raspberries sang a tuneful buffet.
It was a fruit smoothie, full of bravura,
as Gala & Fuji crooned, “An apple a day…”

(Inspired from the pages of Referential Magazine – there was a poem under May 2010’s listing called The Significance of Singing Fruit by Foster Cameron Hunter- for some reason, I really liked the title and wrote this poem based on it.)

6 comments:

  1. A neat and witty villanelle, full of colour and taste.

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  2. Precious, RJ! I love the rhyme and rhythm... makes me want to skip through the fruit section of the grocery store.

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  3. Welcome to the Tent!

    What a fun poem (I loved the title to that poem, too)!

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