Granny Smith Apple And The Fluorescent Tube! Poem by nimal dunuhinga

Granny Smith Apple And The Fluorescent Tube!



Granny Smith Apple and the Fluorescent tube!

The Granny Smith green apple is a tip-bearing apple cultivar, which originated in Australia in 1868. It is named after Maria Ann Smith, who propagated the cultivar from a chance seedling. The tree is thought to be a hybrid of Malus sylvestris, the European Wild Apple, with the domestic apple M. domestica as the polleniser. The fruit has hard, light green skin and a crisp, juicy flesh.
Granny Smiths go from being yellow to turning completely green.The acidity mellows significantly, and it then takes on a balanced flavour.

I eat an apple here
A Granny Smith
bit sour but tasty and
all of a sudden
my thoughts dragged
to a bygone incident in motherland.
A street child did acrobats
and munched a fluorescent tube
for his living on the pavement?
Politicians really don't know
the taste of glass as they drink only Wine
brewed from our blood?

[The Buddha was always accompanied by an attendant whose job it was to run messages for him, prepare his seat and to attend to his personal needs. For the first twenty years of his ministry, he had several attendants, Nagasamala, Upavana, Nagita, Cunda, Radha and others, but none of them proved to be suitable. One day, when he decided to replace his present attendant, he called all the monks together and addressed them: 'I am now getting old and wish to have someone as a permanent attendant who will obey my wishes in every way. Which of you would like to be my attendant? ' All the monks enthusiastically offered their services, except Ananda, who modestly sat at the back in silence. Later, when asked why he had not volunteered he replied that the Buddha knew best who to pick. When the Buddha indicated that he would like Ananda to be his personal attendant, Ananda said he would accept the position
'Ananda these poor folks cannot absorb our Dhamma as they did not have a single meal in their stomachs days & days, feed them first! ' The Buddha said.]


for my friend Pranab Chakraborty!

nimal dunu

Thursday, May 22, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: art
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Colleen Courtney 25 May 2014

An interesting poem filled with lots of great information! Thanks for sharing!

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