Orange-ku VI

There was no orange in the Grey Cup this year.

Orange-ku V

An orange is better than passion fruit.
Better than plums, blue berries, watermelon.
Bananas are right out! Yuck, yuck, yuck!

Orange-ku IV

This is two days' worth of oranges in one verse.
It's not many mandarins; I'm tired.

Orange-ku III

Today I ate one after stringing the lights.
Now, I'll deck all our halls with Christmasy sights.

Orange-ku II

Oh, the shapes peels can make; my favourite is the 'S'.

Orange-ku I

With this round of orange-servations, I have decided to go back to the daily reports I used to do for my dog-servations. I wanted to keep them interesting as well, so I've invented a poetic way of sharing the results: Orange-ku! The structure of the poem will share the results of the day's observation. The number of lines will be the number of oranges I've eaten and the number of syllables per line will be the number of segments for each orange!

So, without further ado, it's time for the first Orange-ku.

I love to eat oranges in the winter
The peel is easy to remove
Sometimes they have seeds, but that is rare now
That sour taste, that citrus smell—Christmas is here

Orange-servations are back!

Last year I kept track of the segments of the oranges I ate during the Christmas season. With a purchase of a 4kg box of mandarin oranges last night, it's again time to get my yearly dose of vitamin C and satisfy my need to analyze trivial data.

After two days with oranges in our house, my results are 10, 12, 10, and 9 segments.