THE POETS STRAWBERRY

THE POETS STRAWBERRY

Inspired by Ade Caparas Manilah

Ricardo Antonio Garcia

Poets are like strawberries

ready for harvest and overcrowded customers

demand they receive their share

but sometimes the farm can’t produce enough

for their vivacious hunger.

One woman lived on them for years

lost weight, clear minded

and ran a miracle mile for every poem she read.

She gained more Wisdom

that a University could have offered her

and she became aglow with Love.

Since I am a Poet. I am one of the growers

offering my basket of words, and

feed the nourishments to those that love God.

I thought there would be many left over

since not everyone believes there is a God.

I am sold out all the time.

Maybe it’s a hint

that more people are finding God after all.

I hold one of my strawberries

and in between my fingers it begins to ooze

but an uncanny color it is.

Red as the blood of God it drips down my finger

amazed to discover the blessing of prose.

God grows a garden within us

and is defined by the things we say and do.

God bless- the Poets Strawberry …