Best Oranges Poems

A day’s routine so easily holds me captive.
I confess to mindless, museless departures,
Brainless unpoetic habits so unreflective,
That I cannot dwell in momentary textures. 

But January ripens oranges on my neighbor’s tree,
Marking spring’s beginning in California.
Midwestern groomed; such play awakens me.
Fat, lush oranges tumble all over...

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During the depression if you got an orange in your sock
You could feel blessed and lucky, and it felt like Christmas. 
Orange tea and orange cake delight me in all kind of ways but 
Marmalade I eat every morning on toast is the sweetest orange...

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Was it just the juice of oranges?
Was it childish innocence?
Was it just a summer barefoot-song?
Have I swallowed it amiss?

My mouth remembers tasting it -
remembers it was sweet. 

Where is the salty flow of tears?
Did sorrow soak into the soil – or run,
or roll, into a...

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Groves,
parallel patterned rows
(hardly higher than bushes),
dot and stretch up hillsides,
looking from a distance
much like cornrows
on the tight tan scalps
of hip young New York
subway riders.
Luscious fruits,
at closer range,
mimic setting suns
boldly drawn in crayon:
oranges evoke essence,
name their own color....

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ON APPLES AND ORANGES


Apples hard and slick,
oranges puckered and soft.
Hard to suck apples.


For the Apples and Oranges contest...

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Peewee Orange upset the apple cart
                                For Mr. Adam who had a apple mart
...

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A verse that has no rhyme may speak of love
No doves required – all poets sing for joy
For we may write at last of oranges
Forbidden fruit as sweet as heroin
In words that do not rhyme with anything
In lines that no one cares about at all

And...

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Apples and oranges
balance between black and white.
No need to compare....

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*Image of Apple Fruit Oranges provided by Pixabay.

Apples and Oranges
Poetic Form: Monoku

I have gazed o'er the orchards ~~ until the time your apple caught my eye

2021 April 30
*1st Place*
All Yours (May 12)
~~Brian Strand: Judged 2021 May 12
*1st Place*
"The Way You Look At Me"
~~JCB Brul: Judged...

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Both foods are healthy
Red and orange, juicy too
Fruit of a rainbow...

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Apples and oranges growing on tree
in a world where all people are equal
yet many of us will still disagree
Waiting for the next terrible sequel

Where force is used instead of any speech
Even our churches are becoming bare
They search for serenity at the beach
Children telling their folks...

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I love oranges
but whenever I visit an orange tree
I find pumpkins hanging.
With weeping eyes
they look at me
as no one takes ever extended a finger
to them since birth...

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apples and oranges
freshly fallen fruit finds flight
delicious delight

© May 22, 2011
Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen...

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Apples and oranges are different
It must be the color
They sell at markets at low prices
Along with all other fruits and vegetables
Who have no souls to bargain for
Atheist to the core
Kissed by the sun for warmth
When apples and oranges are pressed for information
Truth and juice ooze...

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Haifa Oranges 

The sky is light blue or pallid
It is late afternoon
Clouds are burgundy and
The sun is a Haifa blood orange 
Picked by a Palestinian’s 
Gnarled hands. 
Once this was his land, but an historical
Tremor came

He has resigned; this is Allah’s will.
But his sons think...

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