Elegy for two orange trees
Although we experience the same emotions, not everyone express them by the same way.
Each winter they brought juice, nostalgic I remind
with imaginatively delight, that I went
every winter at my grandparents’s home to collect
bitter oranges from some spinous branches.
Those days looked dry, filled with cold boredom,
my puerile mind embraced a break-up with bore
while I helped thrown the fruit on a corner of the room.
The joy those fruits brought for a little girl seemed
very meaningful on a place where to find sense was
a hard duty, conflicting with adults’s world, a world
composed of rules and ambiguous rewards, now that world is totally
out of meaning, so I’m in elegy for those orange trees.
I thought they will be eternal, while sad I notice
They fell as ants’s sustenance.
The ghetto spaces they occupied by decades are empty
bush are growing as is expected on these arid sites
it seems like a tree never was planted over there
a mastic tree could be the answer, if this is a hill,
with not ocean to embark, only a friend river,
not very far, two strange lemon trees are fighting to grow.
About this poem
I took three elements to write the poem, first a longing for nature, an elegiac form and third two readings from two European poets: French Rimbaud and Spanish poet Luis de Góngora. The first is modern and the second is baroque, although both were useful to me as motivation.
Written on August 30, 2023
Submitted by talygarza on August 30, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,128 |
Words | 217 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 7, 7, 6 |
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