Harvest!

By Rhiannonw

Fri, 25 Oct 2019
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Apples galore,
trees shaken to pour
fall flood for the store
– chopped by the score –
juice lake:
bottle and pack:
more and more for
shops to purchase
and stack,
winter whittling the stock
– autumn’s taste
not gone to waste!

 

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Comments

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

What an amazing sight to see all those apples piled high and getting used. I like how you descibe what you are seeing, in this poem.

We have crows and magpies that simply love to sit in the neighbour's apple tree and peck away at the fruit.

I enjoyed your poem Rhiannon.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you, Jenny. My husband took this photo when he was cycling around the lanes where the orchards are recently.

It's nice that the crows and magpies don't get all of them! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by jeand on

HI Rhiannon

 

Lovely reminder of fall fruit.

Jean

Jean Day

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thanks. Lovely to see so much fruit abundance! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

I've never seen so many apples at once! How lovely it must be where you live, full of orchards! You must be able to smell Autumn? Do you get to drink the fresh juice? My Dad used to put our windfalls in a plastic dustbin (specially bought!) and made a basher out of a broom handle with a log on the end, which he had stripped of bark and smoothed down till all clean and neat. Then we had to stand on a chair and take turns bashing the fruit to a pulp :0) The  juice tasted REALLY  good. Thankyou for reminding me, and for your great ryhmes, the first three lines give such a strong impression of bounty

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you, Di. That sounds like it was real family fun! Someone in our chapel has an orchard in her garden and she arrives with lots of bottles to hand out, though it has to be drunk soon in about 4 days! tastes lovely. Rhiannon