Natural Gen #1: Cherry (free verse) - Steemit School Poetry 100 Day Challenge - Day 84, Poem 75
Hi!
I’m back on Day 84 for my 75th Entry to the Steemit School Poetry 100-Day Challenge by @d-pend.
I'll be glad should you be able to read and comment.
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Cherry
A cherry hangs
alone
from its mother
branch.
Others, ripe and green,
mixed,
hang in groups,
tight.
The same root,
same rain,
same energy
—have nurtured them all—.
All will—sooner or later—fall,
nearer or farther, from their tree.
A Personal Comment:
It must like fifty poems now when I started saying I've always taken great pleasure in the contemplation of nature. Few as they are my opportunities to travel nowadays, I keep a lot of memories from my childhood, among mango trees, cashew apples on the fire, roosters, rivers... I guess one never comes back from that.
Natural Gen is a series of minimalistic poems I've started writing today. Hopefully, I'll get them ready.
Thanks for reading.
See you tomorrow with another poem.
Here, the link to Steemit School Discord.
- All images illustrating the poem are mine (taken with my cellphone, a Lenovo Note).
- I've modified the images using imgur.com.
I feel that this peice is much deeper than just an observation of cherries ))
It's a beautiful metaphor of siblings:
So close and yet so different, everyone has their own journey in this life. I was always wondering how can it be that even twins are not alike, growing up in seemingly same conditions they become absolutely different people: one is fond of music and poetry, and the other one is interested in sports and cars ) Do they get their nature in the womb?
The last lines are a little bitter-sweet:
The imagery is beautiful!!! Roots should never be forgotten, with no roots a tree dies, dries out as life evaporates through the leaves...
This is a nice clean piece that can also be interpreted as analogy to parenthood/family as a whole and how one resembles or moves away from the path and traits that define our blood relations.
I love this minimalist project of yours. I agree with the first readings, in as much as it is hard to avoid the connection to family or parenthood. In our particular case, with families dispersing as a result of our economic and political crisis, the idea of segregation and the very futily of life sinks in.
It can also be read from the perspective of the inevitability of death, regardless of what life we live (gregarious or reserved).
I guess, even an image as gloomy as that one gets reinvented through your power of observation and your meticulous use of language, my dear @marlyncabrera.