Spilled Apples

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oil painting by: Albert Francis King 1854–1945

 

M oonlight
keeps dark at bay
pressing in
as night wind stirs

like mocking breath
of life now lost
to light-less realm
beyond the chill
encircling me

I ache
to feel
your tender touch
the warmth

but naught

my heart
cold
and empty
to remain

no emotion
save grief

apples spilled
on broken stair
where rail eluded
grasping hand

no voice came
to futile cry

those lips
will not know again
sweet fruit

nor love

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rob kistner © 2021

Poetry at: dVerse


 

22 thoughts on “Spilled Apples”

  1. A dark and tender and sad piece, brother; clever way of working the fruit into the mix. Love gone bad, loss that deepens before it heals up. I loved your comment at my place. Once again, we have had common experiences, thoughts, apexes, and health issues. Thank the gods the gray matter is still snapping for both of us.

      1. My three contributions to the prompt covered three of my more favorite poetry topics — sensual, sad, and silly… of course I also like SiFi, sweet, surreal, sarcastic, societal stupidity, and philosophical. Could noy figure out how to communicate that with an “S”.

  2. Oh, this is sad. Apples have so much mythology attached to them – they are the start of sin, and motherhood, and so much more. You bring all that weight into this poem of loss and love.

    1. Thank you Sarah. I saw a scene in a movie years ago of a lover losing their life, falling up a stairs carrying a basket of apples. I do not remember the movie, but the scene lodged in my mind. It was so sad, the apples bouncing down the steps, scattering, while the women lay in a broken heap. Hitchcock, Fellini, Kubrick one of those?

    1. Sometimes I love going stark and dark Ingrid. I have found it is not always easy to bring sadness with minimal words effectively but when it happens it moves the “heart”.

  3. Okay, this made me teary eyed. It reminded me of the phrase ‘don’t upset the apple cart’ it leaves bruises to the best of plans. Sigh…I think you aced the ???? sad

  4. With all the mythology surrounding the apple, the lost fruit can mean so much… but certainly an end to anything good.

    1. The apple was blamed for the cause of the Trojan War. Golden apple in Germanic lore, prevented aging. Native peoples of North America considered it tge Tree of Life. Biblically was considered Tree of Knowledge, and got Adam & Eve driven from Garden of Paradise. Powerful znd also dangerous fruit Bjorn.

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