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Poems A-Z Bananas

6/7/2010

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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.



 

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