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# When Life Gives You Tasks
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/when-life-gives-you-tasks/
- Published: 2021-11-07T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-11-07T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: the lemonade stand needs a ditty my little daughter, oh so pretty asked papa writer to write some of course, I am under her thumb
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

the lemonade stand needs a ditty  
my little daughter, oh so pretty  
asked papa writer to write some  
of course, I am under her thumb

I'm horrified: the gentle lemon  
appears to rhyme with none but daemon!  
it'd be much easier to rhyme  
if we were talking about lime

my mind soon wanders to tequila  
and limes again -- no, that's a killa  
the lemon is raison d'etre  
be it in English or in meter

oh sure, it is a little acid  
but I cannot be calm or placid  
ditty she wants, ditty she gets  
this lemonade will have some spritz

at last I think I have a plotline  
the lemon is a citrus bloodline  
it does not fall far from its tree  
and is quite excellent with tea

it's easier to rhyme than orange  
that one requires a bit of courage  
and also goes quite well with fish  
it's added to most every dish

I give it to my little daughter  
so far I think, she earned a quarter  
and she says: Dad, it's lemonade!  
and not a lemon, which you've made

oh well, back to the drawing board  
at least it's not about a gourd

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**Author notes:** https://allpoetry.com/contest/2792263-A-poem-about-lemons-