dreams ripen like fruit
left unpicked
they rot and die
REQUIEM
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They do that, Nan. I really like this sweet poem!
yeppers they do...
dreams undone wilt in the sun
thx Ms Buzz Bucket!!
Is that another verse?
not really...i just tend to rhyme ...lolol......it was so perfect the way it was i decided not to add that little snippet
dreams undone wilt in the sun
crinkle into raisins
don't seem quite so amazin'
don't mellow into wine
or anything so fine
just my mind dancin' down alphabet street...lolol
Hysterical, Nan.
i get that way quite often Ms Buzz Bucket...lol
This is true. Great poem.
thx dragon dear
love ur work 2!!!
You're an artist, Nan! I'll think of this poem every time I wander near the fruit bowl and fuzzy mold assaults my eyes.
lololol...then my job here is done chingobingo
your poem kicks ass
but not ur cute ass RZ....wait...it is cute isn't it...lolol,..
thx poet
I very much like this. Eleven words were all it took to remind us that we are all given a window in time. If the dream remains in our head and not acted upon, at some point it becomes just some faded lost desire on an old bucket list that noone will probably ever read. Perhaps it will fall and ferment in the summers sun and be consumed by two lucky souls who look forward to the approaching Fall with newfound hope. I suspect tho' that it will be, as you said, only fruit, and when fruit falls to the groundit does what unpicked fruit does, it simply rot and die :-(. I enjoyed your story, Great job!!!!
u perceived me nicely jemsd...good on ya...the biggest bucket on the list wont save the kind of dreams i speak of in this poem
however in real life there is a second harvest (4 people usually between 40 and 50 years old) when that fallen fruit (dreams) can be reclaimed and turned into something even finer because of the wisdom of the advancing years
yep i'm happy to say there is life after 50
Snowman
Me too!!
yep...that winter individual will be dead soon
i'd rather melt then rot by golly!!!
it simply rots and dies is what I meant to say.
gotcha jemsd....rotting depends on the person
Do it now! If it doesn't work out do something else. There is always an alternative. Love it
hey that's what bucket lists are 4...so u'll be successful at some of them if not all of them....good positive energy TS.....
The Canadian Transcontinental Train trip is way up on the list
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