Fruity Limerick
Lately, I’ve been having lots of fun with Big Tent’s poetry prompts. Its latest prompt asks us to write a poem about fruit or to pen some other food-related poetry. My Fruity Limerick is only partially true … and I leave it to you to guess which part.
Fruity Limerick
By Madeleine Begun Kane
There’s exceedingly little dispute
That it’s healthy to eat lots of fruit.
I don’t eat much. My reason?
The very short season
Of fruits I enjoy in a flute.
(I have lots more food humor here.)
Tags: Food Verse, Fruit Limerick, Health Limericks
Hmmmm…grapes for Champaigne?
She doesn’t eat fruit
unless poured in a flute.
Must be grapes
Found in the vinyard she traipses
Drinking to escape from that brute.
Here’s one the recovering lawyer in ya might enjoy.
She loves to drink her favorites in a flute.
The ones fermented, if you’re astute.
May not be very healthy.
Or just reserved for the wealthy,
But drinking fruits from a flute? the point is moot.
Thanks for your verse Bobby and Hansi!
Very fun response!
To be honest, I also find a lot of fruit “unenjoyable” – mealy apples, dried out tangerines. I hardly trust peaches anymore…
but I enjoyed your limerick.
cheers
sarah
Oh How Fun your blog is! What a great place to visit when in need of a smile! I’ll have to try my hand at limericks too one of these days!
Fresh out of limericks today. That’s okay, cause I can come here to get some, anytime. And I like the idea of drinking fruit from a flute. You can always make me smile,
Elizabeth
chuckle.
though there is always:
melon ball, melon ball, strawberry, pour;
sip fruity bubbles and pour some more
repeat, repeat, repeat.
eat.
Can’t say that I blame you! Fun, as always.
You’ve heard what they say about beans
(If not then just ask a few teens)
They’re the magical fruit
Like a horn they will toot
So stick with grapes by all means
some fruit makes me nervous. :) but fruit in a flute? yes, i think i could be on board. fun!
I’ve really enjoyed your “fruity” comments and verse. Thanks so much!
Perhaps you might sip from a chalice.
(i.e. Danny Kaye’s drink at the palace.)
But beware bitter nectar:
some fruits bear the spectre
of sweetness along with some malice.
Thanks for the versified warning RJ. :) I enjoyed it.
Limericks are so much fun. Sadly, the only ones I recall I can’t repeat anymore.
I read this through a couple of times before the ‘A-ha!’ light bulb went off, and I got the thrust of the limerick. I enjoy having to think a little, so this is a gem.
Thanks, Mark! I’m always amazed at people who can recite limericks by memory. Five minutes after I’ve written and posted one, it’s vanished from my brain.
Very clever. Love the twist at the end. I always admire a well done Limerick!
Thanks, Erin!
A flute … of champagne?!?! Ah, sweet grapes.
I loved the disagreement of “exceedingly little” right away!
Thanks Rob and Deb!