Prompted: Peaches

My girlfriend gave me a book on writing prompts for Christmas, knowing that I write, just as she does. Today, I was able to take time to stretch some writing muscles with the first of the many prompts in the book, 'A Year of Creative Writing Prompts'.

The first five-minute challenge was to write around the word 'peaches'. This is the result.

Not quite orange, neither yellow

I took a bite; it made me mellow

I'm not much of a fruity fellow

But for peaches? I'll always say "hello!"

Get it fresh from the market

Or from the many aisles of Target

Outside the grocery, vendors park it

Or in a lovely dress, girl, work it!

Mix it with the fluffiness of cream

See it in vivid, colorful dreams

Put in a pie, or a single-hued ream

Splash it on a suit, or hinted at the seams

There's quite a lot to say about peaches

Of softness, sweetness, joy -- it teaches

One taste, and flavor boundaries it breaches

Alluring tint, our senses it reaches