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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2008-09-25 03:10 AM


An apple falls to ground from an old apple tree
and it has no wish to be an orange or a pear
or red when it is green or green when it is red
because little apples that fall from apple trees
know they simply are what they’re meant to be.

They do not land with a thud in the middle of a pool
of mixed up DNA and crossed personalities
untutored in the art of reaching solid ground
and unschooled in the means of reinventing themselves.

They simply lie there quietly waiting for the hand of fate
to ravenously bite and chew from the outer in
and haphazardly and unconcernedly
throw the core away.

There must be a moral to the story of an apple
but words of wisdom fail when I’m in a pool
trying desperately to reach a solid base
while knowing that the hand of fate
treats everything and everyone
with the same degree of … taste!

Helen


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nakdthoughts
Member Laureate
since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200
Between the Lines
1 posted 2008-09-25 10:23 AM


Love it Helen, even if there is no moral to it

M

Margherita
Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236
Eternity
2 posted 2008-09-25 12:39 PM


Helen dear, you are too much! This is a philosophical lesson with a touch of humor. Enjoyed it much!

Imitate the apple and BE!

LET GO AND LET GOD!

Love and hugs,
Margherita

"Love is the One who masters all things;
I am mastered totally by Love."
(Rumi)

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California
3 posted 2008-09-25 01:47 PM


Profound and amusing. No moral required.
Love it.
                                 Ida

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
4 posted 2008-09-25 04:34 PM


Thanks everyone.  I have a few more apples in my fruit basket but I'd rather eat a pear!  There's a time and a circumstance when the hard and inflexible is necessary but my choice now is to flow gently down the river of tender and succulent delights.   
  
Helen

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