green

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fruit, haiga, Haiku, pears, photography, poem, Poetry

a bowl of green pears
not at all appetising
more days in the sun

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Too late!

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birds, fruit, garden, Haiku, nature, poem

avian bandits
peruse picked soft fruit bushes
too late, feathered fiends!

Jam

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cookery, fruit, gooseberry, Haiku, poem, Poetry, sunshine

#haiku

On preserved sunshine

frozen gooseberries
red with last summer’s sunshine
five pots of fine jam

luxury

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blackberries, fruit, haiku, nature, poetry, seasons, summer

summer bountiful
hedges full of blackberries
sheer luxury

Ripe

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birds, black currants, blackbirds, fruit, haiku, nature, poem, poetry, summer

Blackcurrants are ripe
My favourite summer fruit
Blackbirds get there first!

Gnarled

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apples, autumn, fruit, gnarled, haiku, humor, humour, nature, poetry

On a great sounding word

In the old orchard
trees hold on to last apples
like me, gnarled but sweet

(but not too sweet)

Summer’s barbs

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fruit, gooseberries, gooseberry, haiku, nature, pain, poetry, seasons, summer, weather

lovely summer’s day
agony, cries from garden
gooseberry picking

Promise

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bees, blackcurrants, flowers, fruit, garden, nature, poem, poetry, pollen, promise, summer, tanka

On watching bees indulge   (Tanka)

Blackcurrant flowers
Unassuming little blooms
Beloved by the bees
Promise of rich summer fruits
Blackbirds must wait for their haul

ripe

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blackberries, blackbirds, crop, fruit, haiku, nature, poetry, seasons, summer

on the garden fence
golden eyed blackbirds gather
blackcurrants are ripe

that time again!

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fruit, gooseberries, gooseberry, haiku, poetry, season, summer, time

middle of summer
It’s gooseberry time again
don’t want to be picked