30 Day Poetry Challenge - Day One

I need to offer a brief introduction to what is about to happen. This is the beginning of the 30 Day Poetry Challenge. Over the course of the month of April, a new poem has to be written each day... thirty days; thirty poems. Where it becomes a "Challenge" is that each day its own criteria for the poem being written. Over the next thirty days, I will be writing and posting enterprising new vistas of poetry... or dreck that I'd crudely whipped together to meet my deadline. Either way, I'm going to make you read it...and here we go.

Day 1: Write a short poem (less than 5 lines). Be sure to include at least two strong images. Don’t over think it, just do it!

Apples and Oranges

Strawberry rainclouds let loose their shimmering cascades,

Showering me in sweet honeydew lullabies;

I drift upon the saccharine ocean in a rickety banana boat

And brave the blueberry tides to find my tropical paradise.