to a pear
By Di_Hard
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on the top shelf
of our Co Op's reduced to clear section
alone
an economy bag of pears
knobbly green and slightly bruised
as a Martian footballer's knee caps...
there is a millisecond when each life is perfect
in a pear -
too early, it is hard, with no experience to savour, flavourless
too late and it is pulpy dull
as existence without surprise
but if it's there, at its peak
a pear is Heaven, and because it was -
the one I had just now - with golden juice
trickling down my wrist
the lusciousness of it, almost wholly sweet but
elusive sharp-shone through and through, like
taste was new
I had to write this, to remember
knowing bliss
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You've caught your delight
You've caught your delight and the enjoyment handed to you, unplannable! Rhiannon
(I grabbed some pears either surplus to someone's pickings, or too uncertain to put in the foodbank, at church a couple of weeks ago, and got them cooked and frozen, not sure of when to eat fresh!)
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Yes, it's crumbles mostly for
Yes, it's crumbles mostly for me, and usually mixed with apples or other fruit. I've been freezing a lot of quince someone wasn't using recently and they are very similar to pears (though very hard to cut, but cook quickly, and again I tend to mix with apples, but you don't need to). Rh
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bit of Rabbie Burns to a
bit of Rabbie Burns to a mouse, to a louse, to a pear.
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How lovely - and you're
How lovely - and you're completely right. It's a rare thing to find, but a perfect pear is perfection!
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What a juicy poem Di, you had
What a juicy poem Di, you had my mouth watering thinking about that pear. You're right too, about the three stages it takes to be perfect.
A lush read indeed.
Jenny.
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The Martian footballer's
The Martian footballer's kneecaps - brilliant analogy!
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It wouldn't be a pear for me
It wouldn't be a pear for me but - having to write to remember - that's it in a nutshell, isn't it? It's a lovely poem, humour and wistfulness and not quite sure where it's going to end up and then it lands on what we all know.
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"I had to write this, to
"I had to write this, to remember
knowing bliss..."
And captured so evocatively. I can visualise that very pear which is a testament to the power of your poem. Congrats on the well deserved Pick, Di. Paul :)
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I loved the Martian
I loved the Martian footballer's kneecaps...and I really must make an apple & pear crumble soon...your delicious poem Di has made me hot for pears!
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Hello Di - Yes, I finished it
Hello Di - Yes, I finished it, had a couple of rejections, but I'm hoping to publish it next year, either through an indie publisher or as a self publishing project.
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I enjoyed this tribute Di. I
I enjoyed this tribute Di. I've always thought of pears as in a league of their own, less popular than apples but not exotic either and somehow used to describe when a situation gone wrong (pear shaped). Poor pears and yet they're flavour is unique 'like taste was new'.
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I can't decide which I
I can't decide which I enjoyed more: the poem or the chat? Well, the poem of course, but I really enjoyed the chat too. All so lovely and human. I really like how, in the poem, you somehow make the separate bits of syntax collide into each other and manage to bring that series of collisions to a higher level when exploring the bliss in an ecstasy of pearishness when discussing pears at their peak when taste becomes something not experienced before, because it feels so extreme, so immeasurable!
(I was always a bit rubbish at Math (Maths, surely!!) so I hope I manage the fiendish question that currently perplexes me! So, if you take 15 and add 0ne,that's ... um. Wish me luck!)
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Hi, I like this poem so much
Hi, I like this poem so much that I was wondering if I could use it within a set of GCSE-level materials for students, particularly as I think it's so good to get up-to-the-minute text and not only use texts from people who are out of copyright, given the seventy-year rule. This teaching set focuses on evaluating texts, within set criteria, and understanding why they work for the reader. It's only an online handout, available only to myself at the moment and probably won't develop beyond that, but I was wondering if I could use it with full attribution of course to your pen name and the source origin in that context and how much you would want to charge for that level of copyright agreement. I can use something else of course but I was keen to see if something was feasible with this poem of that type. I hope you don't mind my asking.
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I'm so glad you said yes, Di!
I'm so glad you said yes, Di! I wanted to reply before and say woohoo and go for it! I hope your students love it too, animan.
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