Gemma's ~~~ "Greyscale Territory" ~~~~~~~ Poetic Songlines: Poetic Pieces of Life ~ Apple

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

An apple is a tastable rose

Sharing the table with

Pear, plum, peach, cherry,

Blackberry, raspberry, strawberry,

Spiraea, flowering quince and

Hawthorn.

Each has a 5 starred heart

Cocooning seeds for new life

But the apple

Is more than

Hunger food ~

Nature's toothbrush

Scrubs teeth and gums ~

Reaching deep into

The scums of life

And yet

Amazingly

Fresh apples float

In water ~

25 percent of their volume is

Air

So I wonder

What air?

paisley said...: this was informative as well as cleverly beautiful.....; April 1, 2008 at 1:41 PM

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent
Autumn is an introspective season when stray thoughts of the mind dive into the mystique of the soul - Gemma Wiseman
Autumn is the bridesmaid of Summer and the flowergirl of Winter ~ Gemma Wiseman
Autumn whispers the tones of yesterday in a minor key ~ Gemma Wiseman
Love is born / With a dark and troubled face, / When hope is dead / And in the most unlikely place; / Love is born, / Love is always born. - Michael Leunig's Christmas Song Cycle "Southern Star"
Spring paints the stars of heaven in Earth colours ~ Gemma Wiseman
Summer sizzles with a sibilant hush / Broken by dreams of / Clinking ice ~ Gemma Wiseman
The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. - G.K. Chesterton
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. - Stanley Horowitz
Winter is the fire, simmering lonely in the soul ~ Gemma Wiseman
Winter is the shadow, the etching of the seasons in the mist ~ Gemma Wiseman