Ripe Succulent Fruit

writing
rich red poems
bursting
with abundant juice
like succulent
crown cultivated
strawberries
containing melons
of tasty meaning

juices run
lusciously swobbing
painting
lipstick tarted lips
greedily gobbling
magnifying
improbable morsels
sucking shredding
squashed pulp

morphia
plants grown
were fed
mind slender
frail potted
plantings

mordant
in foliage stem beds
architect groomed
tesselated soil
were fruit given
strawberries grown

swob - apply (usually a liquid) to a surface; 'dab the wall with paint', archaic variant of swab.
morphia - [Greek. morphin from Morphesus, the god of dreams] the alkaloid constituting the narcotic principle of opium.
mordant - the term mordant comes from the Latin word, 'mordere', to bite.
A substance used to set dyes on fabrics or tissue sections by forming a coordination complex with the dye which then attaches to the fabric or tissue.
tesselated - chequered; pertaining to or like mosaic.

poem by Terence George Craddock
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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