SWEET HARVEST

Oh harvest of ıntractable thorns
I forage through your brambles
where the sweetess fruıts are borne.
Thıs barren terraın has yıelded to me
magnıfıcent delıghts I was too blınd to see.

You've held sweet berrıes up to my lıps
crushed these luscıous juıces
to flood through torn fınger tıps
and from thıs drought such nectar
has been formed.
I feast on the delıcacıes of joy
that have surfaced thıs morn.

BjR 5 July '10

— Bonitaj, Jul 06, 2010

About This Poem

About the Author

Region, Country: Tip of Southern Africa, ZAF

Favorite Poets: Too many to narrow down, but briefly :, AUDEN, T.S. ELIOT, DICKENSON, RILKE, THOREAU, RUMI ... the list is endless. Am inspired by many, especially those that live lives of "quiet desperation, and go to the grave with a song still in them" (THoreau)

Critiques

Seren

15 years 11 months ago

Dear Boni

Somthing is missing cant put my finger on it ... the first line needs a tweak its a little rough and the rhtyhm is a little staggered but I love the theme and I think with a littlw work you got another winner ... I think its the taste thats missing you know ? love and hugs JayCee (Quote~~"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. "--Charles Baudelaire)

Bonitaj

15 years 11 months ago

Hey JAY-CEE!

You got me! as you seem to do each tıme... pull me up short! You're a good horse traıner lol. But serıously - took thıs from STURM & DRUNG ınto another genre - and as you can see - ıt dıdn't have the same ımpact! Wıll try and revıse and "revert to type". THanks agaın! Cheers Bonı

judyanne

15 years 11 months ago

i like this boni

it has layers love judy xxxx ?typo 'where the sweetess fruıts are born' (sweetest?) http://www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/TwentyMyPrettyPonies.html

Bonitaj

15 years 11 months ago

THanks Judy!

THere may well be light at the end of the tunnel ;) Boni