An Apple Poem A Day.....

A poem that celebrates the sensuality of the apple.  Come and celebrate the apple at our Apple Day, Saturday 15 October.

From Orpheus: A version of Rilke’s Die Sonette an Orpheus

By Don Paterson

Taste

Gooseberry, banana, pear

and apple, all the ripenesses….

Read it in a child’s face:

the life-and-death the tongue hears

as she eats…  This comes from far away

What is happening in your mouth?

Where there were words, discovery

flows,  all shocked out of pith-

What we call apple…Do you dare

give it a name?  This sweet-sharp fire

rising in the taste, to grow

clarified, awake, twin-sensed,

of the sun and earth, the here and the now

the sensual joy, the whole Immense!