Sweet bitter lemon

 

My beutiful lemon

i love you because

you're yellow

what would i do if

you were a blueberry!

maybe i might i like you

who knows

what if you were

a strawberry!

i might hate you

but i might love your

sweet red flavour

dear god

what if you were avocado,

i will surely die

with your bitter skin,

what about an olive?

nobody likes them

except me...

how about a watermelon?

sweet  and wet and cold

i need you to be yelllow

my sweet bitter

lemon

 

Reviews

[Kees Kapteyn]

I often make up a little game with my kids and say "I bet if I fried you up on barbeque, you would taste just like a pork chop!" and we would all take turns guessing what each of us would taste like. Yes, we're a weird family! But we do indeed attach our personalities to objects and their tastes. My wife is a definite nectarine, tender fleshed and luxuriously sweet with a hard, nut-like core.

[Ray Hamilton]

I like lemon in my Gin
It doesn't taste bitter in there at all
The more you drink the better it taste
The better it taste the more you drink
See how this gets started
I don't drink Gin anymore
So no more lemon, I'll have a Strawberry
( Strawberry dacory that is) LOL
I enjoyed this write
Ray

[Ralphy]

I like this very much, it makes me feel..um fruity. I like the color cordination along with the savoring flavors. I wasn't expecting that...thank you

[darkgurl]

I like this, wonderful writ ehere, sorry it's taken me so long to review your stuff. LIke this write. You did a wonderful job writing this.....Kim

[Thomas James Martin]

This is one of my favorites of yours, Emma. Exceptional imagery and play of the various fruits on the lemon make this a very intense poem. It is not a good thing sometimes to make lemonade: What is, is though in my time I have experienced some transmutation.
Excellent work. I know we say it too much around here, but thanks for sharing. It really is imprtant for you and for all of us graced as we all are with each other.

Tom