Flower And Fruit Poem by Aftab Alam
Flower And Fruit
All plant or tree that bears
Fruit doesn’t give such a fragrance
As rose, lily, marigold, night queen…
Or fruit bearing flowers;
Generally, they are not
As beautiful as the flowers.
Where as I know
Both can lure
Both can cure.
Flowers that morph throu’ our eyes
To mind, seldom bears the fruit
And the fruit that cherish
Our mind through our eyes
And creates the taste to taste
Rarely bear flowers
That soothes most
Both attracts the eyes
With degrees of difference
But later gives desire to tongue
And former the eyes
Now we have: -
“All that glitters is not gold”
Now I ask, which the gold is;
Flower or the fruit?
To decorate the house;
The terrace, balcony, courtyard
Or even dining table we keep vases
Of dead flowers to see and enjoy
And fruit on tray to eat and enjoy
By this way, we can map the mind
I will not describe, if interested, find
But I know
People prefer instant beauty
Than the beauty far fetched
Is it not our responsibility?
“How the life is being hatched! ”
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Beautiful poem with good question... Both are parts of nature. Both give happiness, Fruits relishes our taste of tongue and satisfy hunger too Flowers do relishes its fragrance sensed by nose and satisfy our happiness too. Both are equally important.Nice write.
flowers are beautiful but the fruit tastes good. nice write
We have to appreciate nature in all its form, fruit or flower, both are unique.
good write. thanks, It is we to see beauty and appreciate good things.
Dont forget, a fruit is never started as fruit since early it was, it came from flowers and then developed to be fruits. Flowers is beauty symbol but i agree why bees' eyes like to stare it more than appreciate the other part like leaf stalk etc..because of beauty, it just human also behave the same..yes we always forget how great leaves are, or strong root is because without this no flower can bloom...but i would see flower as a product of cooperation between leaves, roots, shoots...they be one to produce flower....and some flowers go fruiting and thats mean beautiful is can be more if we contributing to others...if we have beautiful face, give it more by fruiting or having beautiful soul, if we rich we should share sweetness we have....otherwise we just have beauty and its all nothing more to celebrate than eyes and self indulgence only...i conclude my understanding and thought of this beautiful idea (your poem) ...we can appreciate beauty of flower but remember things behind all of this, and comparing fruit and flowers cant be so easy as it perceive more we know that each live differently and serve differently...accept this as richness of life and diversity beauty..._Soul
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I would like to translate this poem
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4/25/2024 7:06:16 AM # 1.0.0.1119
Aftab bhai, it is a deep poem but quite in range of the reader like me...the manner of carrying the analogy from the vegetable world to a culminating point about some understanding of a phase in life..is just wonderful and effective...! ! !