Periodically I pause and marvel about avocados. How amazing that a fatty fruit exists–and such a tasty one, too. I’ve been particularly grateful for them in the last couple years as I’ve been avoiding dairy (to help with a health issue). Avocado slices or guacamole can fill in for cheese beautifully in many situations. Cut one and half and get a spoon for a satisfying treat. Kids love them, too.
Last year I began a poem about avocados. I finished it this week to post here on this day, which is both during my Amazing May project and a Poetry Friday. Links to more Friday poems from children’s poets can be found at Jama’s Alphabet Soup.
Avocado Wrapped in dark green pebbly skin covering an unassuming oblong shape, when cut in half, behold, inside a perfect spherical pit, mirrored with a perfect, semi-spherical hole, both surrounded by creamy, bright green foodstuff. Oh, that creamy, bright green foodstuff! A fruit that’s green and full of fat— a monounsaturated fat, at that—surely the avocado is nature’s generous gift. © Karin Fisher-Golton, 2014
photograph by JJ Harrison
Thank you, avocados.
I agree, they’re wonderful, & you’re also right about kids liking them, too. I like that 2nd verse, 2nd spherical pit/mirrored by a 2nd spherical hole. An ode to this wonderful fruit is good!
Thank you, Linda! I like that you called it an ode. : )
Delicious — both the poem and the fruit! I try to eat at least 2 avocados a week :).
Thanks, Jama! I like the idea of an avocado goal. Yum!
It’s a good thing I had some avocado last night or I would be going crazy right about now! A special poem for a special fruit!
Thanks, Michelle! I had to have some avocado myself this afternoon. : )
When we were trying to get my daughter to try avocados, we told her truthfully that they taste like butter. I should buy them more regularly, but I feel like such a poor steward when I let one over ripen.
Good comparison. I think they have the texture of soft butter, too.
We buy a few at a time and put them in the refrigerator when they are just barely ripe, in case that helps.
did you know that women identify more colors than men.
that includes all those different greens of fruit and leaves and poems.
eddie
What an interesting and lovely thought. I didn’t know that, and sure see how it would extend to poems.
Good to have your poety presence here.
So much to love about avocados! Pomegranates are another unsung hero of the fruit world — all those hidden rubies!
Oh, I agree about pomegranates! And I love your description: “hidden rubies.”
I just discovered quite recently that I may be allergic to guacamole, which I absolutely love, so that’s really a shame. I enjoyed this tribute to the avocado. 🙂
Thank you, Myra. I’m glad you enjoyed this. Yikes about the guacamole allergy. I hope it is not an issue with the beloved avocado–I hope it turns out to be something in spicing that can be avoided. Just avocado, lemon juice, and salt can make a nice guacamole. I am with you on loving guacamole.