Yellow Pepper “Art” and “Poetry”

In keeping with Eat the Veggie Rainbow week, I’m eating something yellow: golden bell pepper strips with hummus.

However, since it’s rainy and dreary outside, I decided to turn my yellow bell pepper into a cute, sunshiny flower before devouring it. I’d hoped to make my flower look like this:

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What I ended up with was this:

Luckily it still tasted good—and inspired a haiku. (Sometimes you just need to break out into poetry. Or in this case, “poetry.”) Here goes…

Pepper petals or
Twelve-legged yellow spider?
I do not know. Eat.

Which I thought was pretty good, until hubby came up with this:

Hummus pepper bloom,
black-eyed susan wannabe.
Homely, but tasty.

(I’ll leave it to you to decide whose was better.)