Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Peach Haiku


The peaches are rolling in to our farms and produce stores. Some are local, some from points south. But all of them are ready for cutting up, cobblering, canning -- and, of course, eating right out of the bag.

To celebrate we are posting Peach Haiku, sent in from our customers -- and where-ever. You can follow the familiar 5-7-5 syllable rule or you can ignore it. The point of haiku is two-fold, maybe three-fold: to stop and savor a particular moment, and to get a reader to do the same. Then (here's the tricky third part), to go beyond succulent description, toward the unsayable, the ineffable, the fun.

Post your Peach Haiku in your comment. Let 'em rip!


Update:

You can submit Peach Haikus to our website in the field at the bottom of every page! Here are the beauties that have come in so far:

Fuzz on a rough tongue
Something firm, resisting, yields
Sweet juice down my chin

Tasty, fuzzy orbs
Nectar: such succulence sweet
Too bad for the pits

Warm breeze and linens
A window sill: picturesque
Who stole my cobbler?

Hanging high above
Steve Miller was right.
I would... Like to shake your tree

Not quite an orange,
Nor the forbidden fruit, no!
You are just peachy.

The original
Chin dribbler in the round,
Worthy of stickiness

Beau's favorite treat,
The pride of Fishersville farm
Thanks be to Ronnie!

One peach and two hands?
An infernal conundrum.
I'd better buy two.

Pepper or a peach?
Which did Peter Piper pick?
Oh, Peter you fool!

Scrumptious citrus spheres
Spongy suede spills sloppily
Slurp: sounds of summer

The secret to life?
Wise man, lost in reverie...
"To live peachfully"


More in Comments section... Thanks to all!

12 comments:

  1. splitting open
    a freestone peach
    sunset

    -- R.A. Stefanac

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  3. local-licious peach
    perfection drips down my chin
    oh joie de vivre!

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  4. ain't no thing to ask
    flavonoids, mental steroids
    peach fuzz now a bite

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  5. The peach tree blossoms
    have turned to melted sunshine
    as summer goes by

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  6. paring knife ready
    my mouth waters as I slice
    small crescent sunsets

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  7. plucked fresh from the tree
    juice dripping through my fingers
    summer in a bite

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  8. She blushed
    At the touch of my lips.
    Round sugar.

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  9. First bite: split skin. Juice
    leaks down my face; my tongue
    searches for a taste.

    Dice, pour, mix and blend.
    There's elegance in the frosted
    glass of peach smoothie.

    Sticky, sugary,
    flavors flirting in my mouth.
    Sweet taste of summer.

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  10. yummy peach cobbler
    good to eat with fresh whipped cream
    can I have seconds?

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  11. Orange fruit fuzzy skin
    Is juice or flesh your treasure?
    Your pit is a stone.

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  12. The one you picked is not a haiku. And the "tomato haiku" you're featuring on posters now is also not a haiku.

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