Watermelon For Beginners: Day 6

It will explode like a barrage
Of sweet water balloons
Aimed at your mouth
A floral splash
Like the underwater pockets
Of a crystal sugar coral reef

The blushing rose taste
Of hummingbird water
Will turn like rose into stem
From candy flesh to bitter cob

Slick chartreuse rind
Will coming mocking
Your watering tongue
that anticipates sugar
It will boast its wet and empty
Aloe and absence

Prompt: "Today’s prompt (optional, as always) veers slightly away from our ekphrastic theme. To get started, pick a number between 1 and 10. Got your number? Okay! Now scroll down until you come to a chart. Find the row with your number. Then, write a poem describing the taste of the item in Column A, using the words that appear in that row in Column B and C. For bonus points, give your poem the title of the word that appears in Column A for your row, but don’t use that word in the poem itself." Chart found here: https://www.napowrimo.net/day-six-12/