I do love this fruit, it is lush and it’s RED,
And it makes a good jam on a nice hunk of bread,
This year we’re uprooting a very old cane,
So we can plant new ones over and over again,
And look forward to homegrown raspberries in the year ahead.

I had a splendiferous cat,
Who liked to lie flat on his back,
He commandeered the duvet,
Could I get in, no way,
But then I’m not the aristocrat!

Why not let’s form an orderly queue,
To just give us all something to do?!
All those at the back,
Will have to guess what knick-knack
They are buying – bread or tiramisu!

* I have always loved this rather elegant but impossibly-spelled word!

Evans F. Carlson, in 1942,
Introduced this word to English with great derring-do!
It means ‘work together’,
In fair or foul weather,
And boy does it boost morale too!

Melissa, a Greek Cypriot,
Bought herself a luscious kumquat,
It was juicy and bitter,
A tart little critter,
But boy did that fruit hit the spot!

Consider the word “Hydroxyzine”,
D’you think you’d find it in a magazine?
It’s a drug given when you’re on total meltdown,
To calm your nerves, to smooth that frown,
The only word where the letters xyz are consecutively seen!!

There was a young girl called Heather from Crewe,
Who entered Birdman for something to do,
But unfortunately Heather
Was as light as a feather,
And soon disappeared out of view!

Tmesis – a word very strange,
To describe a considered change,
– The insertion of a word in a compound phrase,
To make you reconsider and reappraise,
An example of the English desire to rearrange!*

* an example would be whatever altered to whatsoever…

Dreamt is the past tense of dream,
So why isn’t gleamt the past tense of gleam?
The English tongue’s so confusing,
Bewitching, bemusing,
But *screamed is the past tense of scream!

* glad to say it!

I’m becoming a Crystal Palacian,
It’s a park and a place and a station,
We have all the essentials,
And bang on credentials,
It’s the most desirable spot in the nation!