Student Poetry Competition 2026 Finalist: Lemons

Lemons

by Kiran Strang, Learning Co-operative Primary School
Foundation – Year 2 Ekphrastic Poetry Finalist

Artwork:

‘Lemons in a Bowl’ by Helena Sofia (c.1934-1944)

 

Some lemons have ridges

and some don’t.

They are often as yellow as wattle

when they are ripe.

 

Limes are very similar

and lemons are usually very sour,

as sour as limes.

 

Nearly every lemon

comes from a tree.

But some come from

when the earth started.

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