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Corinne
Member Ascendant

since 1999-10-28

Posts 5167
state of confusion

0 posted 2001-06-22 03:31 PM

Bitter Berries

Why, my friend, must you insist
on picking only wild fruit,
when a plentiful orchard
lies just beyond the next ridge?

Is it the unexpected pleasure,
a quest for novelty,
or the taste for the untamed
that drives you so?

And what of poisoning?
Remember last time,
you kept eating those
bitter berries
because you liked
the feeling of them
on your tongue,
then you were sick
for days?

Come, come help me
tend these fine peaches,
soon we’ll have pears
and grapes on the vine;
no, my dear,
nothing exotic,
I’m afraid.

And Richard?
Don’t even THINK
about touching
those red mushrooms.

© 2001 Corinne Bailey

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

1 posted 2001-06-22 03:33 PM

(laughing)

Humor..and much more underneath... enjoyed this a great deal...

Gentle Spirit
Member Patricius

since 2000-10-09

Posts 13989

2 posted 2001-06-22 03:36 PM

Lol......I enjoyed this, and saw so much in these words also. Well done. *s*

On the wings of words our spirits fly....and our souls are free.
~Me~

Watersign6
Senior Member

since 2001-05-25

Posts 823
Hurricane,WV

3 posted 2001-06-22 03:37 PM

good poem

Parker
Member Elite

since 2000-01-06

Posts 3129
ON

4 posted 2001-06-22 03:39 PM

I've always been partial to wild cherry's myself...

Yes I really like this one..

Park

Logan
Senior Member

since 2001-05-28

Posts 1641
Arkansas

5 posted 2001-06-22 05:07 PM

Gentle smile, Cor, what an interesting poem on the bitterness and dangers of forbidden fruit. Very well, done indeed, my dear friend. Yes, I do believe the other is better for us and in the long run more tasty

Marge Tindal

Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

6 posted 2001-06-22 07:19 PM

Corinne~
I am just certain you penned this one giggling !
Adorably done.
~*Marge*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
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vlraynes
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-25

Posts 8229
Somewhere... out there...

7 posted 2001-06-22 07:26 PM

corinne-
LOL...very cute write..

got me smiling here...

~vicky

"...until you have read the verse on his
heart, you have not truely met the poet."
-vlraynes

Auguste

Member Elite

since 2000-02-16

Posts 3953
By the sea

8 posted 2001-06-23 11:32 PM

Corinne,

(LAUGHING!!!) I loved it!

Just wonderful.

Michael

Michael Auguste~
There is more depth to the heart than the human mind can comprehend and it only has boundaries when we choose to fence it in.

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