gold and green on vines
summer’s ripe frantic giving
past appreciation
of this heaviness
heaving into sight
desperate for handling
rolling our eyes,
tired of phallic snickers
already
how many times
is something so green
so generous
going to announce itself
in the morning
& demand attention
just like an…
no. I said
I was already tired
of vegetal
erection jokes
Susan Daniels Poetry 
Next year, grow marrows, impress the neighbours.
🙂 will do!
NO JOKES? You mean I can’t leave a joke? Awww, do you know how “hard on” me that is? 😉
Oh, SFAM, I am so sorry…If you have something original to say about these big green phalli, please share 🙂
Don’t tell me I have to explain. I did use ” ” after all! That WAS my joke! :lol”
🙂 It was WONDERFUL 🙂
oh good…you have restored my faith in sisterhood!
…just wanted to make sure you weren’t holding out on me!
smiling at you tonight… and the comments. Thank you
Thanks, Audra. Glad it made you smile. Now tell me…do you want some summer squash!?!
laughing.. I do not eat squash. I won;t even lick it. Now give me a nice big solid cucumber… and then we can talk
LOL, I have those too–less problematic because I can pickle them. Not as frighteningly phallic, either, as I grow the gherkins 😉
you are an earthy woman eh? I am the anti gardener. Most of my friends are high from gardening this time of year. they get all wacky on me.
I love to grow things. Outside. I kill any kind of house plant. I don’t go too crazy with the gardening–but this time of year I have been known to leave grocery bags full of zukes on unsuspecting neighbors’ porches.
spreading the phallic joy eh?
Joy–or horror. Do not think something that grows overbleepingnight to the length of my forearm (and I am tall, so that’s HUGE) is something I am comfortable referring to as phallic 🙂
good lord… ( I could insert something really cynical about men and their— but I won’t)
Extremely difficult for a non-gardener to fully follow these engaging exchanges or even to understand the poem proper! A picture speaks a thousand words – so please just one picture would help a zillion! It is hard when a male follows such fruity and juicy discussions! would a picture or a diagram make it less hard or harder? me wonders! 🙂
🙂 Would you like a picture of a very large summer squash? Will be glad to post it 🙂
Here an LOL will not do–it has to be an LWKMD!
I hear you, yes, I hear you, laff well well but no die, abeg you!
🙂 I did laugh well. Unfortunately, the HUGE one made a very tasty parm…so you will just have to take my word on it’s size…we can call it a zucchini story, instead of a “fish story.” I swear, it was this big…….stretching out hands to an unbelievable size…
awe inspiring!
lol, or at least slightly off-color poetry inspiring…
like this susan, but i’m laughing at this last line. should i not be….*L*..:)
Oh, you all should have been at least snickering at the end!
Marvelous Susan!
Thanks, Deb!
I’ve followed all the comments and I am alaughing so hard here. You guys are just ‘coming on’ strong with all this heat! Poor zucchinis! I pray they don’t ‘wither’!
🙂 worry not about the zukes–they have staying power, too. LOL.