Chinese New Year brings oranges
In England we import from Spain
Those bitter Seville oranges
Don't eat, make marmalade again
We do like things which are home made
Especially thick cut marmalade
We buy 2 bags of pectin, yet
Those jars of marmalade don't set
We've sometimes done it with success
Our resolve to research is strong
We'll tell you how to do it right
Also how not to do it wrong
You need two bags of oranges
You peel two kilos of the fruit
The pith, the pips, in muslin bags
Six sterile jars inside a boot
It takes him several hours a day
Fills two or three full, busy days
The effort that goes into this
Deserves medals, needs constant praise
We kid ourselves it's healthy food
But know the sugar content's high
If 'what you fancy does you good'
Finish the lot before you die!
-ends-
The saying is 'a little of what you fancy does you good'. However, that is eleven syllables. One line over sounds odd and means rewriting and expanding every line. Or lines one and three of every verse. Five verses, ten lines to rewrite. I have other things to do today. I might come back another day and write version two.
Please follow my blogs. I have started about twenty, but the three which I work on every day are travelwithangelalansbury, dressofthedayangela and comical poetry by Hazel Nutter.
Please share links to your favourite poems or posts from my blogs. Have a day filled with rhymes rhythms and echoing lines of pretty poetry.
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