Figs Poems

Figs

Summer is a season of figs
It is one of my favorite fruits
Beside mango, banana, prunus  
Love to see people have it at tables
One of the earliest fruit trees
Cultivated by ancient peoples
Dry or fresh food and medicines

Categories: figs, fruit,
Form: Other

A Sincere Distrust of Figs

In every apple, an atom resides; 
in every Adam, an apple abides. 

So it goes and goes, apples 
toppling off tables in rhythmic waves, 

falling through slits, convincing themselves 
they are particles instead.

Whether in a pie or the depths 
of your eye, it remains a life 
enlaced with apples.

Even saws wield charmed abilities  
to

Categories: figs, fruit,
Form: Ekphrasis

Ancient Dried Figs

so ancient dried figs
more than  three thousands years old
old clay pottery

Categories: figs, adventure,
Form: Haiku

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Early Birds

picking ripe plump figs
each one marred by pecking holes
~ pleasantly plump birds

Categories: figs, bird, nature,
Form: Haiku

Figs

the palms of my hands
are empty and I am 
craving figs...

awakened by a growling 
stomach and the social
media feeds and the TV
just can't fill me today
friendships have grown
apart, no one to come
home to sinks in from
time to time, and the
news from the doctor 
lingers...and snapping
at the customer service
rep on the phone was 
uncalled for...I ask

Categories: figs, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Mindgames, Figs and a Dictionary

“Mindgames, Figs and a Dictionary”


Have you ever wondered 
where you’d be 
if there were absolutely no 
dictionaries?

You could make up almost any word
and give it any meaning.
Like Figs are jewels for chewing on
and words are really demons 
with angel wings 
to fly you straight towards the Light;

Mindgames become worlds 
without rules
prison cells have no bars,

Categories: figs, daughter, love, magic, mother,
Form: Free verse

Monkey Eating Figs

Monkey Eating Figs

There was a monkey on my back eating figs,
Screaming, cursing as sunlight hit its beady eyes,
Slowly this thought came to my sleepy head,
Be calm, let the beast finish its meal
For even imaginary beasts have to feed in peace
Perhaps he is a god in another form. A spirit
seeking to play a game. He must

Categories: figs, allegory, visionary, wisdom, word
Form: Free verse

Husband of the Figs

Husband,
I fertilized your tree,
You fertilized me.
:-)

Categories: figs, relationship,
Form: Burlesque

Gathering Figs

I went this morning to gather ripe figs
The ants, wasps, yellow jackets arrived first
They had been gathering like little pigs
Here a hole, there a hole, those giant holes worst

Hidden in a giant hole underneath
Was an armadillo covered in dirt
He keeps his family in tiny sheath
Shows them around yard, rears those little squirts

Some ripe figs had

Categories: figs, life, nature,
Form: Sonnet

Figs

Early frost killed
First crop, Second crop ripe now
Figs are turning brown

Categories: figs, nature, seasons
Form: Haiku