Fruit Poems
Kiwi
by Maeverik Foxwood
Confessing love
is like eating a kiwi.
When you see the green underneath,
before you take that first bite,
Your mouth
waters so hard, it hurts.
Delicately, you peel the skin back, and your mouth waters harder.
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Our Plumtree
by Mario Odekerken
It stands in the corner
where sunlight lingers longest.
Each season,
it forgets and begins again,
bare limbs,
then blossoms,
then fruit.
We never ask it for anything.
Still,
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Vibrant Blue
by Evelyn Judy Buehler
Dramatic skies of blue-gray clouds,
Before the rains that evening shrouds.
Fresh blueberries, forget me nots,
Bracing waves when the weather's hot!
Twilight bluejay, in search of night,
Prancing peacock, vanity's delight!
The earth itself, and also Neptune,
Ripe juicy grapes of morning June.
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Deep Red and Ripe
by Evelyn Judy Buehler
a mulberry tree
under dark blue/purple skies
birdsong on the wind
red orb descending
midst the hello and goodbye
the wandering hours
evening breeze caress
sun lurks in shadows of night
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A Garden Tale
by Evelyn Judy Buehler
Ripe, juicy fruits and passing blooms,
Grow here in the walled garden wild,
Permeated with pungent floral fumes,
Deep hues where orange sun smiled!
Red strawberries and blueberries too,
Blackberries and two big apple trees,
Buttercups, red roses and iris so blue,
As daisies tango of an evening breeze!
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Our Plumtree
by Mario Odekerken
It stands in the corner
where sunlight lingers longest.
Each season,
it forgets and begins again,
bare limbs,
then blossoms,
then fruit.
We never ask it for anything.
Still,
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haiku : hiku 1 : mango
by Ghairo Daniels
haiku
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mango
sun kissed blessed fell
tough smooth skin blade slashed, dripping ~
rip hair juicy sweet
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hiku
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Mulberry
by Evelyn Judy Buehler
in navy blue dusk
mulberry brushes green grass ~
a scene that's starlit
Pomelo
by Kimani Hare
An even thicker rind of bitter pith,
Estranged from the serenity that lies outside its comprehension.
For what resides within is a supple flesh dissonant to its confines,
Exuding a sweet nectar that remains clothed in the abstract.
But the bitter fruit thrives in its circumstances.
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Strawberry Autumn
by Evelyn Judy Buehler
plump red strawberries
the kind we knew last red dusk
when time inched by brusque
garnet stars flash on
scarlet leaves and cardinals
mars phenomenal
crimson dragonflies
when fruitful days are going
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