Love-Apple Exercise Poem by Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide

Love-Apple Exercise



Of a tomato plant,
one rhyme-avoiding bard believes
you don't eat the roots, the stems or the trash.

Let alone of no appeal to what comes lower,
none of these the taste-buds suit.
No. What you eat of it is its apple.

Prefixed with love-
it grows a red, soft heart
from one that is green and ungiving

according to that one bard.

Thursday, June 8, 2017
Topic(s) of this poem: fruit,hardship,leaves,rhyme
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
tomato, formerly known as love-apple.
thanks to Les Murray for letting me know leaves are trash
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Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide
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