Mr Kipling Lemon Slice
Marcus Holley 1992 (London)
White and yellow,
Meadow-like.
They were always in my cupboards.
‘Double packed for freshness’ and then, years later:
‘Single sealed
For freshness’.
I never quite got that one.
Close friends knew where they were kept,
They always asked, or took.
New guests always
Pleasantly surprise.
A sweet routine of after-school
The unpicking of the plastic,
Reuniting tongue and tooth
The icing sharp, the sponge fantastic,
Knowing I spent all my youth
Waiting for that paradise,
A sweet re-treatment of the vice:
The Mr Kipling lemon slice.
About this poem
Memories so clear I can taste them
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Written on 2015
Submitted by SeesawUpendown on January 11, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | X X X X X X X X A B A B C C C |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 564 |
Words | 125 |
Stanzas | 15 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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