Bananas…the funny fruit
When you slip-N-fall & rip your suit
The food of silly chimps and apes
Far from the somber, sober grapes
Sittin on the table with forks and spoons
Or swimmin in the cereal like silly goons
Look how they take over the fruit salad
Feeling so important and thinkin they’re valid
Bananas…all yellow with certain appeal
“I wanna banana” the kids all squeal
Hanging in a bunch all naïve and green
Next thing you know they think they’re keen
Lounging with their buds and feelin mello
They get a bit older, wiser and yellow
No wonder we cut em down to size
Slice em up nice and feast our eyes
Nothing finishes off a frantic Monday
Like a big ol bowl of banana nut sundae!
David Kettler 3/19/09
I needed to write a poem about bananas for the “B” in my alphabet of poems. I thought of bananas as somewhat funny and mischievous maybe from the way they are portrayed in Jungle book. Also, I thought of them somewhat arrogant because they are by far the most visible and most used out of all the fruits here in the U.S. with possibly the apple for an exception.
When you slip-N-fall & rip your suit
The food of silly chimps and apes
Far from the somber, sober grapes
Sittin on the table with forks and spoons
Or swimmin in the cereal like silly goons
Look how they take over the fruit salad
Feeling so important and thinkin they’re valid
Bananas…all yellow with certain appeal
“I wanna banana” the kids all squeal
Hanging in a bunch all naïve and green
Next thing you know they think they’re keen
Lounging with their buds and feelin mello
They get a bit older, wiser and yellow
No wonder we cut em down to size
Slice em up nice and feast our eyes
Nothing finishes off a frantic Monday
Like a big ol bowl of banana nut sundae!
David Kettler 3/19/09
I needed to write a poem about bananas for the “B” in my alphabet of poems. I thought of bananas as somewhat funny and mischievous maybe from the way they are portrayed in Jungle book. Also, I thought of them somewhat arrogant because they are by far the most visible and most used out of all the fruits here in the U.S. with possibly the apple for an exception.
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