Speaking of oppressive orange,
where do we find it?
Is it in the Orange Revolution
in Ukraine,
when there were political wrangles?
Is it in a sour orange juice that a two
year-old child is forced to take,
to get vitamin c?
Is it in a wall painted orange in a house,
while one of the couples wanted white?
Is it in the mid-day sun that burns
our backs and heads in summer?
Or, is it in the dictionary,
where words are coined every day?
Theme #Oppressive Orange
Wild boar artichoke terrine
Barbarie duck with
sweet & sour orange sauce jus
rose water ice-cream
ameretto cream
No credit
Crunch !
Home made vegetable soup
Cold Dripping on toast
One Fried egg, sunny-side up
Cress and chive salad
Bread & jam sandwich
Don't bank on
It!
Sour orange and Cherry red
Golden hue under a bed
Of garden pink and passionate skies
Where they’ll meet their timely demise
Ushering in a snappy breeze
For twilight time is smooth with ease
The sun has drawn to close its eyes
The warmth that now crawled from its apprise
And now shadowing into the night
We are guided by a different light
Fall has issued where it was a broiled
Dancing there on the green mossy soil
Pairing rights and colored plumes
Preparing for the springtime bloom
Pick the seeds from what look like weeds
Collecting and canning them as beads
The briny vines with fruitless wonder
Winter shall embrace them under.
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