Words for Spring & Fruit Poem Contest
- By Chris Mittelstaedt
- Reading Time: 1 min.
April is National Poetry Month. Looking for the right poem for today? For this feeling, you have in early spring in our world today? You can probably find it on poets.org. Their database of more than 10,000 poems can be searched by occasion, theme, form, or author.
In celebration of the month of poetry and our 25th anniversary year, I’m pulling out one of my favorite poems about one of my favorite fruits: the Satsuma mandarin. [With apologies to real poets.]
Ode to the Satsuma
The Satsuma makes me Zooma.
Happy when I peel it I might just hum a too-na
or clap my hands and make a boo-ma.
When I get that sweet, crisp shot of tart and tangy Satsuma,
so juicy and sweet and quick to please between my cheek and goo-ma,
I feel I could run just like a puma.
In a daze of citrus joy, I reverse its high degree and refer to it as magna laude cu-ma.
It won’t make you fum-a’
or lose your sense of hum-a’,
Now go out and spread the tasty word of the Satsuma rum-a.
Like I said, sweet and tangy it makes you Zooma!
Try a new fruit this week and see if it makes you Zoomah. Or at least smile inside your mouth, if not outside too.
