Look! Plum blossoms! Dazzling white!
Is that the sound of a bee
Whispering promise of sweet fruit?
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4 comments:
Beautiful! A promise of sweet treats!
I hope they turn into some tasty fruit! My new tree is putting out its last flowers. I have no idea whether that'll translate into any fruit...
My friend is a poet.
And I didn't knoet!
Very lovely! Do you like this poem by Ezra Pound? - I do:
In a Station of the Metro
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
I had my first plums last year (this tree is still a baby at 4 years old) and they were very tasty indeed. It's a triple graft, and one third is yellow plums. I kept waiting for them to turn blue but got the message when they started dropping...
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