Need poem containing cherry or almond..

[thorgil]

Hi ppl!

I am writing some horticulture stuff about cherries, almonds (stone fruit) and i thought it would be nice to start with a nice poem (or part of a poem) or quote/wisdom.

Do you know of anything nice containing one or more of the following images/emotions:

cherry/almond blossom (...in spring)
peach/nectarine skin (..she have the skin of a peach something...)
bitter almond (....poisoning?)
Plums (... on the other hand... maybe not.... ;-)
anything regarding stone fruit really....

u get my question?

I would be most grateful for answers..

/Tobias, Sweden

[ennmirza]

[great,i want to share some thoughts,
on the subject,if u like.
mirza :banana:

[Petrarch's Love]

First thing that came to mind was this, though it actually refers to the blossoms not the fruit:


Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.
--A.E. Housman

[thorgil]

>Petrarch's Love:

Thank you! Doesn't matter if there is no fruit... my work includes both ornamental trees and fruit production.... ;-)

More suggestions? (lots of pages to deck)

/T

[jackyyyy]

This always comes back to my mind, and though its only part of something, I believe it leaves its mark rather well - especially peaches and the creamy silk pillow. Good luck with the work.

Fruit
On my creamy silk pillow
pale as moonlight
I will bring to you a basket
heaped with apricots
soft peaches
crescents of honeydew
ripe raspberries
red as bites
and pink fleshed papaya
spilling glistening seeds
onto a bed of fresh leaves

[Petrarch's Love]

Other things that occured to me:

There's always the well known line from T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock: "Do I dare to eat the peach" (from about the third stanza from the end--full poem here (http://www.online-literature.com/ts-eliot/poems/13/)

And of course the veritable fruitopia of poetic works is Christina Rosetti's "Goblin Market" Here's a link to the full poem (http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/roset01.html). I've pasted the first stanza below, but it goes on for pages with a cornucopia of fruitful imagery (as well as a bizarre tale of temptation and redemption).

MORNING and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
"Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy:
Apples and quinces,
Lemons and oranges,
Plump unpeck'd cherries,
Melons and raspberries,
Bloom-down-cheek'd peaches,
Swart-headed mulberries,
Wild free-born cranberries,
Crab-apples, dewberries,
Pine-apples, blackberries,
Apricots, strawberries; -
All ripe together
In summer weather, -
Morns that pass by,
Fair eves that fly;
Come buy, come buy:
Our grapes fresh from the vine,
Pomegranates full and fine,
Dates and sharp bullaces,
Rare pears and greengages,
Damsons and bilberries,
Taste them and try:
Currants and gooseberries,
Bright-fire-like barberries,
Figs to fill your mouth,
Citrons from the South,
Sweet to tongue and sound to eye;
Come buy, come buy."

[Isagel]

This one has a plum in it

The rose family, by Frost

The rose is a rose,
And was always a rose.
But now the theory goes
That the apple's a rose,
And the pear is, and so's
The plum, I suppose.
The dear only knows
What will next prove a rose.
You, of course, are a rose--
But were always a rose.

[chmpman]

And Goblin Market comes complete with slang references to prostitution and the female anatomy. Pick that one. :lol: