The Inkwell
There’s something about your shade
you could be a fresh lemon, or a zesty lime on the canvas
the artist just can’t decide,
for the fruit in the bowl can be your colour while it ripens up
turning yellow or green when its ready for eating
Elevated in its Coloured
Leaves brighter than your oaks , ashes or sycamore
Emitted Luminescence – it would probably light up in the dark
Creating a lovely neon effect
To some insects – its a dream plant – saying “come and eat me”
Reality – the glow tells them to stay away
In case the leaves make them ill – only the bravest
Caterpillar dares to have a chomp
Salford, 8th September 2018
Saturday morning, and I’m pondering the next shade of colour in fees fun foto challenge
lime green
now you say lime green to me, and my artistic thoughts go directly to the fruit bowl
But limes nowadays seem much darker in tone than what I’d normally associate them with….you would have to split them open to get the colour you were looking for
But a quick scan of the kitchen cupboards soon reveals this light green colour. In a packet of custard, or perhaps pasta or even strawberry jelly (strange but true). For the doubters it’s the one in the green packet…
lime jelly ? An acquired taste.
and outside in the garden, the trees have more of a lime green colour to them than the actual shade of a dark green lime
look again… and the outside of the lime is hiding in plain sight…
20th July 2018
#Sweets #Fruit #Poetry
A Food acrostic – not to be confused with the game you throw a ball at 🙂
Sealed up in the big plastic bag
Kept in your travel case
Is a multitude of flavour – A rainbow of taste
Tastebuds tingle, at the very
Thought of flavours
Like Lemon, strawberry, Lime, Orange and Blackcurrant
Each little sweet, exploding with flavour
Sensational
The humble lemon,
like its siblings the orange and lime
each segment is full of cells just
bursting with juice
as the fruit knife cuts through the peel to the zesty core
each cell in its way bursts – releasing
fresh lemon zest into the air
while drops of lemon fall onto fresh marble
#coloryourworld #cyw #electriclime
16th February 2017
Zingy little fruit,
full of zest and flavor
and powerful punch
perfect , placed in a jelly
sparky flavours contained in
a porcelain mould
Sparks of delight
pop off on the tongue
and your luminosity
Green for go ! your sign
the party power switches
are all turned on
#Coloryourworld #Cyw #Yellow
I like the colour yellow,
like the way it appears in a sunny day
or a soft boiled egg at breakfast
so many colours depend on it
we’d have bluegrass on the lawn
and funny coloured sunflowers
and Citrus fruits ? No Orange, Lemon or Lime
So Have a Banana! and Rejoice!
this bright and colourful fellow,
The colour who makes Mustard Bite
yet makes Bananas and Custard Mellow
perhaps you might like to celebrate
with a Lemon meringue pie on your plate.
#Coloryourworld #Cyw #BurntOrange
I’ve never got my head around this
from Lancashire to Yorkshire, from Spain to Greece
I’d sit in amusement
as master chefs who made the grade,
cooking food as a show, Practicing their trade
toasting a poor citrus slice – within an inch of its life
(and occasionally catching the chef – causing strife)
presented with fish or meat with salad on wood –
it never really tasted how it should
the foodanistas would praise it constantly on the net
but do the same things at home – No – i’d bet
instead they post a falsehood on twitter
as burnt citrus isn’t tasty – it’s really quite bitter!
In response to the prompt :
Contrast
What can be more contrasting than a fully laden fruit bowl ?
The whole rainbow of colours are there from the dark reds of the red apples, plums, and grapes to the orange colours of the Oranges and Tangerines to Yellows of the Lemons and Pineapples and finally the green colours of the green grapes, apples and limes.
There is one colour lacking though…its lacking some blueberries and damsons…
