D.W. Rodgers Poet Free verse

Of Onions and Peaches

Unwrap an onion
and find
beneath the layers
nothing but tears.

While the peach
beneath the fuzz
and the succulent flesh
yields a hard
but sometime fertile stone
to carry the future

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Romella Kitchens March 17, 2014 at 1:52 PM In one of my blues poems I wrote "Love is like an onion. Keeps me crying all the time." D.W. Rodgers March 17, 2014 at 2:25 PM So true - thanks for reading and commenting

Richard Lamoureux February 27, 2014 at 10:18 AM A clever write.

Karen Ruff January 21, 2014 at 9:35 PM Yup. Did you ever try growing one. I have a son who gets a kick out of seeing how many different kinds of seeds he can coax into growing. He has grown avacado, lemon, apples, peach, orange seeds, and acorns. Cool, actually. D.W. Rodgers January 21, 2014 at 10:07 PM Cool, and thanks for reading. We've occasionally had them germinate from our compost but never grown. We do grw\ow onions, leeks and garlic.