Mmm, Apple Pie!
Slim blade slides over, under.
Outer layer pared away
in one long strip, baring the soul,
the essence within, unraveling
a lifetime about to be reborn,
a new life waiting to be savored.
This poem is my response to dVerse Poetics: Apple!
at dVerse Poets Pub, where Anmol is the host.
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love your layers here, surreal and true!
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🙂 Thank you.
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welcome!
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New life in a steaming cinamonny pie, yum!
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😀
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Nice line: “a lifetime about to be reborn,”
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Thanks, Frank.
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Fabulous. (And now I think I’ll go eat an apple … no pie available!)
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Unless they’re cooked, I’m allergic – peaches, pears, apples, cherries, nuts. My throat tightens and my ears itch. It started when I was a teenager. I recently figured out that I have oral allergy syndrome.
The proteins in certain foods have a similarity to some pollens. Apparently, for me it’s birch (to which I didn’t realize I was allergic). That group has the potential to include potatoes, carrots and bananas, but I can eat those with no problem.
However, I can slice an apple, sprinkle a little sugar on it, and then microwave it. Also, I’ve experimented enough to find an apple cake that I really like. Nuts that are roasted pose no problem. Just baking raw chopped walnuts into that apple cake works fine.
And of course, there’s my rotating favorite – apple, peach or cherry pie.
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You have just made a case for keeping a microwave handy!
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🙂
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It seems you do love your apple pie, Ken.
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Oh, yes!
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Ken, I both smile and am in awe of this poem which brings us from a
delicious apple pie to our life.
Love the ending” a lifetime waiting to be born
a new life waiting to be savoured”.
Miriam
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Thank you, Miriam. 🙂
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There’s a chilly undertone to this one. I’m not sure how much the apples appreciate being peeled so we can rebirth them.
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Peeling, baking. A Poe scenario with Vincent Price as the baker.
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That is more or less what came to mind…
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I fell asleep thinking about an apple peel that was one long strand. When I awoke I was thinking about a mummy as it unravels, which of course, introduced a dark side, so I made the graphic to hint at that.
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Of course! Macabre indeed.
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For an apple, it must be terrifying to be approached by the paring knife.
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Ah yes, but sparing it the sight of a gaping mouth.
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Nice Ken! I love the mummy with the pie… I guess he will have to unwrap to eat it! LOL
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Thanks! 🙂
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Succinctly penned! ❤
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🙂 Thank you.
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