Ripening Tomatoes

MAGPIE TALES

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RIPENING TOMATOES

(An Acrostic)

Red is the colour we aim for

It's the colour that we're meant to be.

Picture us rosy and ripened

Exactly the shade you should see.

Now imagine you're sinking your white teeth

In the flesh which is juicy and sweet

No apple or orange can beat us!

Get us ready and ripened to eat!

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There are those who prefer a potato

Or a carrot or parsnip or peach.

Many more like us put in a salad

At a barbecue or on the beach.

Tell your friends we are here in the garden

Out here getting plenty of sun.

Every day we grow redder and redder

So eating us will be great fun!

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MANY A TRUE WORD!

"Many a true word spoken in jest."
When was Mankind at his best?
Rising to two legs was a gain
But now we're sinking back again!
Did we swing down from the trees
To merely live a life of ease,
Crouching over a little screen,
In a shape reminiscent of the Pleistocene?
That noble creature, centre-stage
Belongs to a much less 'civilised' age,
But did his sons grow extended thumbs,
Stunting the growth of their craniums,
Gazing, with hypnotised satisfaction,
At a little screen, which breeds inaction?
Oh the curve of that human graph!
If it wasn't so sad it would make us laugh.
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