Only a Fruit
Friday Writings #12: Colour - or the Absence of Colour
If the trip didn’t do you in, we could paint the town red, maybe talk about the old days. I’m just so tickled pink to see you again! Perhaps as a blue blood, born to the purple, you’re used to white washing all those grey areas I am just dying to discuss. As the black sheep of the family, I’ve always been more yellow-bellied, so I’ll be green with envy at hearing your exploits! Oh, please don’t be in such a brown study… here, have a glass of fresh squeezed orange juice.
alas, poor orange
no rhymes nor adages for you
solitary hue
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There is actually one perfect rhyme for orange, sporange. According to The Free Dictionary, sporange is "A single-celled or many-celled structure in which spores are produced, especially in fungi, algae, mosses, and ferns."
I must apologize for the unintentional rhyme in the haiku. I changed the "for you" to start the line, but didn't like it that way. Since it is a light-hearted piece, not a "true haiku," I decided to just let it rhyme. 😊
I also will mention, it seems as though line 3 would have more than 7 syllables, but the counter on Soda Coffee shows 7. I enjoy using that counter, I often compose my poems right there!
#tankatuesday #tastetherainbow #poetry challenge no.259 #tastetherainbow-color poetry
This is so well written and clever, Versesmith! *chuckling*
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David [ben Alexander]
http://skepticskaddish.com/
Thank you very much! :)
DeleteI like this trip through the rainbow!
ReplyDeleteThanks! It was fun to write!
DeleteThis is great, Lisa! I loved how you incorporated the various meanings behind the colors. Very cute! :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks. That was the fun part. There are so many color expressions.
DeleteI love your poem, Lisa. Impressive use of color. 😊
ReplyDeleteThank you for saying so! :)
DeleteThank you so much! I enjoyed working on all the different expression with colors.
ReplyDeleteI never heard of sporange. It sounds a bit like sponge and has me thinking of many almost rhymes.
ReplyDeleteI hadn't heard of it until now either. I always heard that there was no rhyme for orange. Still a bit true, as who knows the word "sporange!" It sounds pretend, made up to rhyme.
DeleteThat was fun, and so well done!
ReplyDeleteWell this is incredibly clever ... and quite entertaining!!
ReplyDeleteAgree!
DeleteWhat a fun and very clever little ditty. Too bad about orange. Orangoo sorry about that?
ReplyDeleteGroan... are you a punster? :)
DeleteGroan... are you a punster? :)
DeleteI enjoyed the play on words and colors. And I so understand the speaker--I think, must of us have been there at some point or another. Black sheep of the world, unite!
ReplyDeleteYes, let's hear it for the black sheep! Of course, the one here is the yellow-belly, but black sheep in general? I think they are the ones to get things done, in new ways, daring to be different and look at things in a different way.
DeleteI enjoyed this.
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