April 21, 2014
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Tomatoes
Solanum Lycopersicum
Seems a silly name
For the fruit of a plant
In the nightshade familyLove apple
Seems a sinister name
For a fruit once thought
To be deadlyTommy Toes
Seems an unappetizing name
For a fruit on the salad
I am about to eatCall it a tomato
Or even a tomahto
Either way
It’s a saucy fruitI love fresh from the garden tomatoes, no matter what you call them. Sliced and lightly salted, tomatoes are the taste of summer. You remember summer... that mythical season of warmth and sunshine your grandparents told you about. Ha! How quickly we (I) forget our (my) bitter complaining about the excessive heat last summer.
This is my entry for today in the NPM Scavenger Hunt using prompt #21 Tomatoes. The photo is courtesy of Wikipedia.
Comments (4)
Whatever the name , the important is the delight we have to eat the juicy sweet tomatoes from our garden.
Love
michel
You can have all the raw tomatoes! I prefer the cooked sauce or catsup... Great poem today (educational and fun too)!
I like my tomatoes right out of the garden, still warm from the sun...but we call em maters =)))
beautiful picture you found.
I am not a huge fan of tomatoes, but in my older years, I can tolerate them in small bits. I think it's odd that I am not fond of them whole or sliced, but diced, or made into sauce, soup or ketchup, I like them.
My mom used to grow tomatoes in a variety of colors, red, yellow, and orange. The green ones were sat in the window sill a day or two to ripen without any birds or bugs biting them first.
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