Poet Helen Mitsios’s ecstatic praise of Harry and David pears.
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No Other Pear Can Compare
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Figs", "Ode to the Royal Riviera Pear", "Persimmons, "Plum Trees", D.H. Lawrence, Helen Mitsios, Li-Young Lee, Mary Oliver, pears Comments closed
Apples That Taste of Earth and Song
Apples bring out poetic creativity, all the more so because the West has seen them as the forbidden fruit. I share here a selection of tempting apple poems.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "August", "eve's version", "Song of the Wander Aengus", apples, Charles Algernon Swinburne, Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market, Grace Schulman, Grimm Brothers, John Milton, Lucille Clifton, Paradise Lost, Snow White, temptation, the fall, William Butler Yeats Comments closed
It Is Your Own Lush Self You Hunger For
In her Garden of Eden poems, Lucille Clifton sees heaven as a stifling morality that both Eve and Satan are trying to break through. Apples in this drama are symbols of female sensuality.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "eve's version", "satan understanding at last", apples, Garden of Eden, Lucille Clifton, Sensuality Comments closed
