Berries Poems - Poems about Berries

It was only a sprig of red berries poking through a mantle of snow. But something in their quiet defiance— so small, so sure, so bold— stopped me in rushing mid-stride, as if beauty had broken some sealed place inside me, and light, unbidden, had found a way in. The world went quiet around me except for the whispered ticking of snow melting on my coat. The berries...

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Fresh football fixtures, fill our Saturdays kids all get haircuts and new shoes for school white summer dresses are folded away north winds caress us as evenings turn cool Summer's end harvest, berries and chestnuts broken branches, the scattering of leaves shaken dog walkers with their shell shocked mutts low hanging sunshine, a Cox apple breeze Weather becomes our preoccupation ends talk of rioters,...

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Blue berries on the vine. Gift of Nature. Unrefined fresh fruit, unwashed, eaten just so. Option to blend special treats – muffins, smoothies, cobblers, and pies. Scrumptious splendor, sweet summer surprise. ...

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sun kissed ripe berries tart and tasty on the tongue~ summer’s yummy treats ...

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Let me hear your love song Whilst in silence I was long Let me taste your melody Like sweet berries on my tongue Let me hear your love song Slide your bow across the strings Move to the wave of my arms Declare your love song to me Open wide the pores of my heart Like baby birds awaiting treats Fill me with your aching...

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Juniper berries are a brilliant bright blue, Prettier, not as dark as blueberry’s hue While growing, prefer warm sunny spaces Live on several continents, many good places Add flavor to liquors are a diuretic too Also, a stimulant, but what can you do? If you come across one, don’t dive right in They are bitter off the vine said my cousin Jin....

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Kayla, our neighbor, called to say she and her two little ones were going to pick blueberries and would we like to pick too… Which is how we found ourselves that morning among the berries painted blue. There among the blueberries…we hadn’t walk in very far when we suddenly remembered what it felt like to be as young...

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Some berries look so enticing until you have tasted them.You then discover the truth as to their sweetness.I am sure that a lot of us have had to swallow bitter berries in our lifetime.Swallowing those bitter berries even with the lump in our throats and a lost appetite.Some of us have had to eat many...

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April was the koolest month we walked in the green uprising, to gather berries, would eat them as we trekked the crunching woods. It was1999 and the sky was clear for months after; we had time to can the berries and preserve them. Thus when the TV conjectured the possibility of a global plague all the channels began to ...

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Blueberries discourage diabetes and heart disease red raspberries can protect you from cancer blackberries help prevent gum disease But I eat them because they are baked into a delicious pie....

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I went off to Las Vegas for some berry On to some fun times ... not to get bury Perhaps wide eye a show, and sight see Not end up at the bottom of the blue sea The voice of the red devil said, why not And like every sap, I was tied into a knot All it took were...

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Always later than I'd like, richness in their cells when ripe Backberry with Apple pie delight, once to taste is not my style I've also found them there, at times and whiles, and tasted also before I'm home.' and now I've opened up the tome, the one on puddings; basin filled.' Mullberry and plum, raspberry and kiwi, gooseberry...

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sun glazed awful sweet dark cherry purple and blue ~ while orange rays pour Written on 8/15/2022 For: Nature Themed Haiku Poetry Contest Sponsor: Tania Kitchin Reference: howmanysyllables.com...

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huddled up berries pasted against the glass room full of strangers I don't want to know draw a fish, a star, a sun, a moon anything to avoid what's in this room voices don't reach me I am not engaged berries in a glass smell like spring we are connected through miles of mountain trail bushy green meadows bustling with bees bursting with blooms blue sky bending over red...

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Sunshine summer raining down On naked breath, hope Racing to meet the echoes Promises awakened on the caress Of light, stirring, silencing Every dark thought – as my fingers work Struggling to grasp every plump Blackberry without grazing the thorns From the briars where such blessed Goodness survives the showers Who pound away at the earth, erasing Every doubt that this luscious Flavor, blackberry heaven,...

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