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Mango-Girl MAG

May 21, 2010
By IsobelFree DIAMOND, Hamilton, Other
IsobelFree DIAMOND, Hamilton, Other
71 articles 20 photos 296 comments

Favorite Quote:
"As long as there is open road, the familiar has the most formidable competitor." - Anonymous


Fruit that likes to think
she's exotic and foreign
and tropical.
She's got fire-orange skin
from the surfer-sun;
no spray-tan faker-baker here.
She was bona-fide grown
in her island paradise,
gossiping with pineapple
in frosty smoothies
and flirting with banana
and papaya in fruit salad.
She wore a hula skirt
and a lily in her hair
until she got shipped
to the mainland,
where she got chopped
and freeze-dried
and frozen.
She's still sweet and juicy-tangy
when you bite into her,
she's just not
exotic and foreign and tropical
anymore, like she wishes
she was.


The author's comments:
The instructions? Personify a kind of food :)

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on Mar. 5 2012 at 9:01 am
IsobelFree DIAMOND, Hamilton, Other
71 articles 20 photos 296 comments

Favorite Quote:
"As long as there is open road, the familiar has the most formidable competitor." - Anonymous

Thanks so much! :)

on Mar. 4 2012 at 11:01 am
beautifulspirit PLATINUM, Alpharetta, Georgia
35 articles 0 photos 1398 comments

Favorite Quote:
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Very cool---I liked that you gave mango a personality. The ambiguous meaning is great!

on Mar. 4 2012 at 11:01 am
beautifulspirit PLATINUM, Alpharetta, Georgia
35 articles 0 photos 1398 comments

Favorite Quote:
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Very cool---I liked that you gave mango a personality. The ambiguous meaning is great!

on Jul. 8 2010 at 1:49 pm
IsobelFree DIAMOND, Hamilton, Other
71 articles 20 photos 296 comments

Favorite Quote:
"As long as there is open road, the familiar has the most formidable competitor." - Anonymous

btw what are u posting? don't worry if it takes a looooooong time, 2. this poem here took like a month and a half to pend approval. -_-

Favourite movie stars: Sylvannah Tomagatick. JEsse  Lesniowski. xD

 


on Jul. 8 2010 at 1:47 pm
IsobelFree DIAMOND, Hamilton, Other
71 articles 20 photos 296 comments

Favorite Quote:
"As long as there is open road, the familiar has the most formidable competitor." - Anonymous

SYLLLIIIIIIIIIII!!!!! 

I mean thank u my dear :)


on Jul. 7 2010 at 12:33 pm
PoWWow17 BRONZE, Munster Hamelet, Other
1 article 0 photos 8 comments

Favorite Quote:
Listen to the musn'ts, child, listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me...Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
~Silverstein~

I loved it efore and love it now ;)

xox