Short Ripeness Poems

The petals open perfumed
the stamens offer pollen
fruit grows to full round ripeness
petals dry fruit falls

©GG 27/08/2013...

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summer harvest sweet
plump fruit ready for picking
a cornucopia treat
one would be wise to know how
quickly ripeness turns to rot...

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Dense fog
Sunrise hidden
Cold penetrates
Three golden pears still hang
Waiting their time of ripeness
The owl hoots  

Vignette...

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Asymmetry is
a plump wren perched
on a thin branch
contemplating
a ripe strawberry
stilled on a table

In its serene
pose does
the wren feel
ripeness or see
the redness or
is the setting
just a pas de deux
for one...

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The green of an apple is a forth coming blessing
With its confirmed ripeness our lips begin the pressing
But remember to address it for any worms
Less in thy mouth they wiggle and squirm
For like bleu cheese dressing the experience is quit depressing...

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pears hang yellow-green
waiting for ripeness to fall...
September gale blows

yellow, green pears lie
bruised upon mother earth's breast..
ants, wasps, hornets feed

pears food for insects
ants lay in store for winter...
pouring rains flood mound ...

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Nights grow longer, stars in flamed blue,
the  luscious trees waving away-
with boughs so plump,ripeness is due,
and dreamy strolls light up the bay.
How the breeze jiggles, toes are bare
on sandy coasts, joys are night's grace,
then 'round I go to our town's fair,   
and cherish all of summer's blaze!...

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The apple of your eye
Is acidic in nature
Burning holes in defenseless victims
Whole holes that hopefully hunt
And the sweet sucking worm
Trapped inside of your favorite fruit
Eats away at their hearts
And the flesh becomes brown
For the lingering life has lingered too long
And the ripeness has reversed into ruin...

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Oh you peel the rind
from me
in the gentlest manner
and it falls away 
in fleshy strips 
of bitter 
citrine madness
where calloused there
in orange despair 
it wrapped
a fancied ripeness
your agile hands
palming round
separate each wedge 
I’d planned
with a tender tearing
sound 
and in your mouth
I am the sun...

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Apples ripen pink, hotly blushing,
though the ardent yellow sun grows faint;
blackbirds sucking soft honeyed sweetness.
like babies at breast, show no restraint.

Mellow ripeness splays rich-toned color;
the trees raise scarlet armed applause.
Red-brown and gray, small creatures hurry
stowing provisions for winter's pause.

Copyright, September 1, 2014
Faye Lanham Gibson...

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Love means to look at yourself
The way one looks at distant things
For you are one thing among many
And whoever sees that way heals the heart
Without knowing it, from various ills
A bird and a tree say to him: friend

Then he wants to use himself and things
So they stand in the glow of ripeness
It doesn't matter whether he knows what he serves
Who serves best doesn't always understand...

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He climbs up rhythmically 
keeping his legs
within a ring of rope 
like his life.

Intuition assures
the ripeness; 
life-nut falls down  
from the tree top.

Just a slip
will end in all end, 
but practice
rarely slips.

Though the ways are hackneyed, 
he’s honeyed and free
under his calluses.

Morrows and yesterdays,
he never climbs upon.
He hugs today, green and yellow
like the coconut tree leaves....

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a flood of colours
    never before such harvest ~
    sparkling like jewels

    on trembling branches
    moments of pleasure ripe plums ~
    of the fallen fruit

    softly on the ground
    with all fullness and ripeness ~
    the heart beat of fall







18.09.2022
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A Haiku Collection of Three - 
Nature Themed Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin
* howmanysyllables.com

2nd place in the contest...

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The person I am
And the person I've been 
Doesn't always reflect
The person within
If you only look 
On the outside
Because the outside
Can sometimes tell lies

The person within
Should be the person without
So the people around
Will have no doubt
Of who you are
And what you stand for
The in and the out
Of a mans worth

You need to dig deep
To truly see
The ripeness of fruit
That's hidden beneath
To tell the truth 
You never can cheat 
On that simple fact
Believe you me...

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