Colours and numbers, symbols and flags comic poem number 429 by Angela Lansbury

Rainbow socks. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Happy colours in the rainbow

Happy colours all around

How many colours do you know?

In your wardrobe, hair, sky, on the ground 

White is for light, in the summer so bright

Red is for blood, flag, patriotic mood

Black is for night, calm sleep, that's all right

Brown is for chocolate, good earth and bad mud

Burgundy is a dark colour of fine wine\

925's good silver, cheaper than gold

Nineties tells you that the weather is hot

Nineties means you're wise, writing wills and old

Squirels can be red, grey, striped or deep black

My favourite hair colours? Ginger. Red

If the food has gone black I'm sending it back

 White skin means youre an albino or dead

Green stand for go

Red means please stop

Yellow helmet for safety

Black helmet for cop

Black clothes easy to clean

For a school uniform

No-one knows who you are 

Why that colour has been worn

I placed an order, emerald buttons

They sent me dark green, the colours don't match

You can hide a stain, let colours march on

I hid a small hole with a jolly gold patch.

I'm wearing rainbow colours today

I'm not having a political say

It isn't that I'm colour blind

It's just that I can't make up my mind.

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Genetically modified fruit and 'fruitcases'. Comic poem 142.

Fruit. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Fruit is genetically modified

Disease resistant, and more besides

I think that we can all agree

What others avoid, leaves more for me

For those who fret, or cry or sigh

It's my belief you will not die

But if you really want to know

The number eight will tell you so

To identify modified, you are are able

By reading the numbers on the label

Four digits means food's the same as before

Five digits organic, starts with eight - added more 

I wish they'd do the same to me

Make me the best that I can be

Taller, slim and young and wise

With high IQ and chameleon eyes.

-ends-

Written by Angela Lansbury Saturday 18 2022.

Comic poem on genetically modified fruit and how to identify it by Angela Lansbury 18 2022.

That's my photo of fruit. Really? Can I be sure? Can I prove it? Yes. 

My photos tend to have the warm colours of red, orange or pink somewhere, and lots of circles or curves. I have two of everything, hence the round woved placemat and the plastic placemat. My husband likes earth colours, neutral colours, but I like warmer colours, rainbow colours, so the pale brown neutral Denbyware china handled cutlery was his choice, but the blue Denbyware plate is from a couple of oddments in the same style which I bought later.

Those blue plates are Denbyware seconds in a discontinued line, same shape as the creamy brown Seville pattern. I bought the blue in a charity shop in the UK and you cannot find any more for love nor money. The brown handled cutlery is also Denbyware seconds, bought from our wedding list in 1976, again almost impossible to obtain. The plastic placemats with the oranges were bought from a shop in Singapore and I cannot find any more to match them. The chance of anybody having and mixing those two sets of discontinued Denbyware and the third odd item, the Singapore discontinued mat are near nil.