Blackberries Ripe For The Picking Poem by John Knight

Blackberries Ripe For The Picking

Rating: 4.4


Looking through the thousands fo poems on the PH list I felt there was something lacking. Modern poems that where quintisentailly English! What could be more English that Blackberrying in late Summer. So here is a poem on just that exercise!

Take your time as the blackberries you pick,
Be careful not to damage friut or bush.
Warn the children NOT the RED or GREEN ones
Take time when you are picking do not rush!

Take your time when you seek out the big ones
Move aside the thistledown with careful care,
Don't tread on the Rose Bay Willow Herb
And the other sweet wild flowers growing there.

Take your time as you approach the brambles
Walk up the track of mud - where late wild flowers bud
Take care to close each gate as you pass through
Observe that natures providence is good!

Take the time to observe all the inects
Lady birds and dragon flies with jewelled eyes that shine.
Savour scent and savour sounds and visions
Observe that Nature always takes her time!

Exquisute is the savour of blackberries
When cooked with bramleys in a perfect pie
The sweet friut of your labours served with cream
Will make you dream and all your tastebuds satisfy!

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Joseph Poewhit 08 October 2009

Like blackberry wine - YUM

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Seema Joglekar 29 October 2009

A nice eulogy to blackberries.Do check out my poem-''Single Woman sans Technology'' --that reflects a similar mood.Gives me the feeling of being there treading on the grass plucking the big berries.Quite pastoral.Lucid imagery.

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Almedia Knight-Oliver 16 October 2009

What lovely tribute to blackberries...I had a hand-full early in the week, i was marvel at the size. unlike the ones I picked as a youngster-'back in the days'. Thanks for sharing this unforgettable poem-it goes into my favorites.I remember picking blackberries, after Mom promise to bake pies. Yummy, I can taste the deep red juice oozing through the crust.....a 10

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A caring poem..beautifully written..will listen to your advice..regards

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A caring poem..beautifully written..will listen to your advice..regards

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Jacqui Thewless 14 October 2009

How delightful! This is the kind of honest, heartfelt (and therefore unsentimental) paean to something all too usually over-looked that I like: visual, explicit, simple. Whereas I'm normally irritated by rhyming couplets in contemporary poetry - a verse-form that is contrived, though easily memorised - for this poem (adressed to children) it works just so! Well done, Sir.

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