April 14 - Fruit

Fruit

This wrinkled flower doesn't look like much

Thin, scraggly small, purposeful.

Kind of homely truth be told - all business.

Not like their showier cousins

Putting all their energy into gaudy colors;
Into dressing up for the springtime display.
All flash in spring, then gone

Some seeds left behind for another spring to come.

But in the autumn , where each ugly blossom

Clung to thorny vines or stumpy, scraggly trees

There will hang a bit of fruit.

And it is to the scattered places;

To the gnarled branches and prickly vines

Where the tiny blossoms did their work;

All business in the gardens and the orchards -

It's there one goes for sustenance.

© 2014 by Tom King