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Lemon Tree Lime

Yellow green citrus clean lemon tree lime In the meadow of sublime Too easy to change your mind Open the door to shut your heart Being dumb to outsmart Smile the smile finish to start Green yellow sunny fellow Sweetly sour girl mellows Show your quivering spine of Jell-o Crying out loud to laugh inside Dancing beneath a citrus sky Lemon tree lime with wings to fly Lemon tree lime with wings to fly Soaring, soaring through the citrus sky Waving, waving bye bye bye Waving, waving bye bye bye Close my mind by opening my eyes With her leaves I to shall fly With her leaves I to shall fly

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Carrie Richards

Date: 1/13/2009 6:23:00 PM

This poem makes me feel happy! I love lemons, but I love your poem even more...it's imaginative, and gives a personifcation to a lemon tree! Nicely done, Fritz~ Carrie

Denis Joe

Date: 1/5/2009 9:16:00 AM

I hope that you will forgive me for saying this but the second stanza is really weak and I feel that you might consider exorsising it because this is a great poem. the rhyme scheme reminds me of Stevie Smith in the way that ithas an inventiveness. The imagery is great. Given the sharpness of citrus and morphing it into that of a relationship. That is a real pleasure to read.