Mango Market

Some choose mangos by the smell

But the yellow scent of heaven

Is all the same to me

I go by feel; Goldilocks-like

Too firm, too squishy, just right

Weighed out and priced

My pesos for a taste of paradise

Backwards Poem

At long last the kite flies free!

He loosens it from the tree

A ladder fetched and leaned up

Her cries heard by a kind grownup

The girl looks up through the leaves in tears

Higher and higher! 'Til into the tree it steers

Dipping and diving and soaring!

To the park she races clutching the string.

All set up and ready for flight

Down from the shelf comes the glorious kite

Today's poem comes from the NaPoWriMo prompt to write a poem backwards. So if you start at the end of the poem and read it from bottom to top, it will actually make sense.

Purrfect Day

 

A purring cat, a well-worn book

And my hot chocolate standing by

All curled up in a cozy nook

While the rain patters down from the sky

I’m all set up and I’m here to stay

For the cat has deigned to nap in my lap

Who can dream of a better day?

While the rain on the window taps

The book is long and thrilling

The cat and I are turning pages

The coco is hot and steaming

While the wind and the rain outside rages

Who can dream of a better day?

Than I with my cat and cup and book and rain?