Bitter Almonds

the taste of bitter almonds

 reminds, as Gabrial said, 

of unrequited love

 it sits on the tongue for a long time

leaving you

with no choice.

acceptance, like grief,

dawns slowly

but surely

and, wary you get

 of trying another 

lest it tastes the same

bitter, 

acrid.

unrequited love

is love too

just like bitter almond 

is almond too.

over ripe blueberries

 i muse,

meet the same fate 

sorted from the good ones 

and discarded

love

almonds 

blueberries 

have their uses

only when good!

Sky and Earth

Majestically,

he looms over her,

Mighty and powerful

His moods change

and she adapts

She, the humble one,

the terra firma,

takes so much

assault upon her

Her bosom filled with pain!

While he roars, growls

howls,

she  patiently  awaits the soothing rain

to soak her tenderly.

Creeper and the Wall

clinging hopefully
to an adamant wall
she hopes to rise

 rise she will,
but only as much
as he would.

that fragrant creeper
can never hope
to cross the mark
set by the wall.

she blooms all over him
her beauty draped over
his dry, rough existence
yet fails to wane

In her next life
'she hopes to
become a tree
and rise
to heights set
by her