The Lonely Orange . (a limerick)

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Ratleader

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0 posted 2006-12-02 11:07 PM

The Lonely Orange

Oh you can’t make a rhyme with an orange

(it would sound too incredibly strorange)

so over the years

we bland sonneteers

have left it alone and forlorange!

[This message has been edited by Ratleader (12-04-2006 05:26 PM).]

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1 posted 2006-12-02 11:09 PM

....sigh....had to cut down my blood orange tree today....and somehow stacking wood and limericks always go together for me. There's no earthly reason why, but any time I stack wood, I start having limericks!

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Roniece Dawson-Bruce
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2 posted 2006-12-02 11:17 PM

oh I like this!! shame about your gorgeous blood orange tree though

Be well
Roniece

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3 posted 2006-12-03 12:18 PM

I can never resist a limerick
but I'm sorry about
your blood orange tree...

Kethry
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4 posted 2006-12-03 12:19 PM

Most poets who know rhyming's cast
put oranges first and not last
and then there's some time
to make up a rhyme
that won't leave the others aghast

a good commitee can decimate communication.

Honeybunch
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5 posted 2006-12-03 02:14 AM

Smiling at this and at Kethry's reply. Limericks are the way of "release".

themute
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6 posted 2006-12-03 02:18 AM

Syringe rhyms with orange. Haha. but its hard i guess to make into a poem, ill try later.
P.S. cringe too?

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Martie

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7 posted 2006-12-03 10:46 AM

Awwww, Ed...I know how important a tree can be.

Marsha

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8 posted 2006-12-03 12:49 PM

Darling man I can't help but smile when I think of anyone trying to rhyme orange, it always gives me a mental picture of Witchy Poo in H R PuffNStuff. I know, the youngsters wont recall it but I do.
Anyway pity about the tree, I hope that at least you got some beautiful wood from it.

Love the limerick darling man, absolutely love it
sorry about the pink, I can't find another colour that fits me anwhere near so well
Love and warm stuff
as always
Mushy
x x x x

Tomorrow is another day I don't know what it holds
but I can face the future with courage brave and bold

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Kethry

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9 posted 2006-12-03 03:57 PM

Ed I like the fact you 'have' limericks sounds like an illness like you 'have' measles to me, sorry about your tree. Here's a limerick to make you feel better

chop, chop poor little blood orange
once was fine but now is so strange
its run out of sap
so I slash and hack
while thinking of rhymes for an orange

and I wrote this a while ago in payment for stolen oranges but it fits.

Ode of an Orange.
I am the last...
I do not want to go gentle
into the land of juice and pith
where life is sucked from me
and I am left wrung out, hung out
with nothing more than withered skin
to show I lived at all.

I have lived
and tasted the fullness
of life, of maturity
and yet I am green
not ready to cast off this skin
and become a husk for your pleasure
sucked dry by your desire

Yet what else is there?
I was created for you
and so consume me
fully and completely
but be warned, I will not go gentle
and the bitterness of my bile
might just poison you.

a good commitee can decimate communication.

passing shadows
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10 posted 2006-12-03 11:54 PM

Pilgrimage
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11 posted 2006-12-05 04:04 PM

Poor lost orange
gone...gone to make a winter fire.
Poor lost orange
gone...never more neath its foliage
will the weary rodent suspire.
Play it...play it soft on your lyre:
poor lost orange.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

LeeJ
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12 posted 2006-12-05 04:19 PM

so sorry you lost that tree, but the amazing fact is this poem...from little oranges that dance in your head....

thank you for writing and sharing.

Angel4aKing
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13 posted 2006-12-05 04:21 PM

nice try trying to rhyme orange!!! No man has yet to accomplish this as well as you, take care and happy holidays...

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14 posted 2006-12-05 04:30 PM

LOLOLOLOL!!!

I'm lovin' the answers to this, a whole lot more than I like the poem!

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Toerag
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15 posted 2006-12-06 08:30 AM

ah yes..he who mourns an orange....when lost to juice....you seem to be doing well mr rat...hope things are going well 'ferya"....

Edward Grim
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16 posted 2006-12-06 11:58 AM

That's great! Now you need to do follow-up poems about purple and silver, lol. Great stuff.

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17 posted 2006-12-06 08:19 PM

If I had but a limerick to share
I would certainly do it with care
for to write of a golden fruit
and far be it from my suit
I would have to give that orange certain flair!

See what you do?

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18 posted 2006-12-07 05:05 AM

Why is it so strange,
writing poems about an orange?
It's made people smile,
has so much style,
and stops us from being derange!

Ok so the last bit is a little iffy..LOL..but i enjoyed the fun of this write.

Thanks ED..

Goldenrose.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes poets. Plato 427 BC-348.

Kethry
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19 posted 2006-12-07 05:31 AM

Limericks on orange make me quiver
next thing we'll be writing of sliver
it's silver I think
or maybe hot pink
and then we must stand and deliver.

a good commitee can decimate communication.

Sunshine

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20 posted 2006-12-07 05:43 AM

I think you should write of purple dreams,
and throw in some magenta streams,
for orange doesn't stand alone,
many words don't go in poems,
and is this as silly as it seems?

serenity blaze
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21 posted 2006-12-07 08:10 AM

sweetness it ain't always citrus
and oranges ain't always "fitness"
pears, I have found
are pleasingly round
at the bottom where I am deemed "mistress"!

Martie

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22 posted 2006-12-07 11:03 AM

If I were an orange and I'm not

I'd grow somewhere nice and hot

then on each passing day

I'd turn green to gray

to quench thirst

drink me soon for I rot

suthern

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23 posted 2006-12-21 10:19 AM

Lack of time and a good ole case of the blahs has kept me quiet lately. *S* But what a delightful read this is to come back to... You even layer your limericks with subtleties so that the immediate reaction is a grin... then the sadness seeps in at the thought of so much beauty and goodness lost. Excellent work!!

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