Thursday, September 15, 2016

PEAR-MOTIF POEMS – AND SAYINGS ABOUT PEARS

Pear harvest of an earlier year,
Couchwood, Saline County AR


From my January Gimcracks (publ. 2003)
 January 30: “drizzly morning/ a lone yellow pear/ in the blackness” –
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 From Dim Sum, 2005/II, p.23
“apple orchard--/could I have/the pear tree” by Yu Chang
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From day breaks, Dion O’Donnol, Feb. 20, 2000:
“pear tree/ white explosion on/ the blue day”
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 From my unpublished sweetness of the apple
winter solstice ~/ the last piece of pear cake left/ from Thanksgiving
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Cutting a pear/ Sweet drops drip/ From the knife
---Shiki Masaoka, from P. Donegan’s Haiku Mind, Shambhala Publ., Boston, 2008, p. XI
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“As for my next book, I won’t write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear.”—Virginia Woolf
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PL, posted 9.15. '16.


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