<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389962" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Raspberries in My Driveway</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nature will bear the closest inspection . She invites us to lay our eyes level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.<br>-Thoreau</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The raspberries<br>in my driveway<br>have always<br>been here<br>(for the whole eleven years<br>I have owned<br>but have not owned<br>this house),<br>yet<br>I have never<br>tasted them<br>before.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Always on a plane.<br>Always in the arms<br>of man, not God,<br>always too busy,<br>too fretful,<br>too worried<br>to see<br>that all along<br>my driveway<br>are red, red raspberries<br>for me to taste.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shiny and red,<br>without hairs-<br>unlike the berries<br>from the market.<br>Little jewels-<br>I share them<br>with the birds!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On one perches<br>a tiny green insect.<br>I blow her off.<br>She flies!<br>I burst the raspberry<br>upon my tongue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In my solitude<br>I commune<br>with raspberries,<br>with grasses,<br>with the world.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The world was always<br>there before,<br>but where<br>was I?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah raspberry-<br>if you are so beautiful<br>upon my ready tongue,<br>imagine<br>what wonders<br>lie in store for me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Erica+Jong">Erica Jong</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389962" data-title="The Raspberries in My Driveway de Erica Jong" data-description="Nature will bear the closest inspection . She invites us to lay our eyes level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. -Thoreau The raspberries in my driveway have always been here (for the whole eleven years I have owned bu..."></div> </div> </div>

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