Troublesome Fruit

Poetry

Troublesome Fruit*

Nothing rhymes with banana

Except perhaps mañana

And nothing rhymes with orange

Unless you count the word borange?

Less exotic, the grape and the apple

Still leave us with less words to grapple

And I discover when I turn to grapefruit

Well that just leaves words like brute.

There’s little more tricky than pineapple

You’re left stretching words like nice lapel

So I turn to the Newzealand Kiwi

And instead all I find is peewee.

Why can’t they all be like pear?

Now there’s a fruit with a care!

Rhymes a plethora of words, unlike strawberry

Which really only rhymes with sore Terry.

Very little rhymes with tomato

The rhyming line they just won’t tow.

So I ask you what is it with fruit?

I guess we can’t ask them they’re mute.

DN

*bit of a silly one for you this month but I hope you enjoy it.