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.

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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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1 Comment
  • Symmetry60
    Please never stop writing. You deserve to be read.
    LikeReply 16 months ago
    • talygarza
      the best judgment is the reader’s isn’t? Thanks again for your kindly comments, I’ll keep writing ✍️
      LikeReply 16 months ago

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