My Poem: Original Work: Stone Fruits: Gen

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Title: Stone Fruits
Fandom: Original
Word Count: 17
Rating: Gen
Poetic Form: Tanka
Notes: I read the children's book Every Tree Has a Story by Cécile Benoist and Charlotte Castaut to Minisculus and learned about a project where 40 types of stone fruits were grafted to one tree, and I thought it would make a good idea for a poem. I couldn't make it tight enough for a proper haiku, so I went with a tanka.

forty cultivars
peaches cherries nectarines
grafted together
in bloom May to October
found family of stone fruits

Comments

[smallhobbit]

That's a great tanka - and what an interesting project.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I know, right? The book was filled with vignettes about different trees and projects, but that is the one that stood out to me. I would like to see the tree in bloom.

[lunabee34]

What a great image to start with!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you very much! It was an interesting vignette.