apple tree – Leaf And Twig

Like A Goddess

bestowing sweetness
with grace
delicacy belies her strength

in every season
the apple tree
is my Eden

each winter day
still more
beautiful

everyone’s fledged
the nest rests
as apples ripen

a tapestry
the apple tree
hung upon the sky

time is the harvester
of a crop that grew
to feed the earth

grandmother apple tree
reaches out to me
pressing love and sweetness
into my hands

everything
that was needed
was given in abundant grace

wassail the oldest apple tree
beseech a fine harvest in spring

with a crown
of ruby fruit
the queen presides

one must
dare the top rung
to tend the apple tree

baubles above the brook
just out of deer’s reach
last year’s apples

by the brook
under the apple tree
a good place to grow

Grandmother apple tree
comforts the afternoon
with shade.