Notes About The Poem

Van Aken grafted a tree, which bears 40 different fruit at the same time and place.

Passion Fruit

Passion Fruit

The harvest is abundant it’s rewards grow plentiful 
                      on my passion tree swinging in stormy feeling desire

Gardening and nurturing words cropping some branches 
                here and there trimming body and soul in water and rain

A book then and now making love in so many senses
              adoring the moon seasons and beaches’ reaches embrace

Six strings on a fretboard bridging the voice of lyrics and
         harmonious tunes so far from perfection and yet ever so near 

Like with Van Aken’s graft there are so many facets of passion
            but plants as good people need kind intentions and practice

My tree was not born with ready made feverish cravings
        attached by virtue of paradisiac grapes straight into my mouth

But practice makes if not perfect imperfectly sufficient
                      and thus the ultimate yield is the passion for passion

17th November 2016
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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Cadet Avatar
November 27, 2016 at 8:38 AM
"...A book then and now making love in so many senses/adoring the moon seasons and beaches' reaches embrace..." Such an elegant 2 lines. One of my favorite out of the contest placements. Great work and Congratulations in the contest. (I can read this multiple times and still find gems tucked away in this piece.) -- Wesley C.
Onclaud Avatar
November 22, 2016 at 1:31 PM
how uplifting.. congrats on your award, kai..huggs
Neumann Avatar
November 23, 2016 at 12:40 AM
Thank you Nette. The morning coffee is starting to work its passion. Many wishes, Kai
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