I don’t like Candied Peel,
And never will I fear.
So I am lost to cakes and pies
baked at this time of Year.
Most Christmas cakes contain it
Along with love and care
But I can’t eat these offerings
I ask you, is that fair?
The Brown sugar and the brandy
Sultanas and their ilk
I love them as the next man would
Along with the flour and milk
The icing and the marzipan
The bowl after the mix
Are things that I enjoyed as well
If just the peel, they’d fix!
Mince pies are simply no go
The cake I dare not touch
I’m missing part of Christmas
Is it asking very much
To instigate a PEEL FREE zone
At least within the cake
The pie of course is hard to do
Peels essential to the bake.
Dedicated to Mike Morris 'Christmas Cake Baker Supreme.'
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
What a Christmas cake of a poem. And I mean this in every good sense of the word. Especially since I like candied peel, though I can understand the dilemma. Keep baking delicious poems!