The Hapless Farmer Poem by Joseph Oladehinde Ibikunle

A tree once blossomed
Upon a farmer's farm
Bearing inedible fruits
And the farmer fumed at this.
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Meanwhile, another stood afar
Outside the farmer's farm
With mild and succulent foliage
Fair in the eyes of the farmer.
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The farmer, in furious lividity
In one morning in the month of March
Laid his hands on a big axe
And chopped off the inedible tree.
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And to the one which stood afar
He dug and uprooted it
With gleeful and jubilant heart
He transplanted it upon his farm.
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He cleared and weeded its side
He watered and nutured it
He inspected and killed every pest
For one good planting season
He toiled for the tree to germinate.
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While expecting a bounteous harvest
He promised his household
Of plenitude of edible fruits
His wife and children lept in joy.
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But after a planting year
This tree blossomed
And yielded in great number
Another specie of inedible fruits
Blaming the first inedible tree
For defiling the farmer's farm.
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A blush of disappointment
Over the farmer's face came
After a year of unbearable anticipation
This hapless farmer
Still has no fruit to eat.