POEM STARTER
Use the symbol of fruits in your poem to represent a theme.
Many fruits are symbolic with different meanings behind them, like the pomegranate symbolizing fertility, or the apple representing temptation.
Sloes
White tarnish on their purple skins.
When you taste one, it’s bitterness
that moves you.
Better to boil them, souse them
with cold spirit, hide them in the drawer
you rarely open.
Until you want to know what it’s like
this taint of autumn and you drain
their ghosts into a ice-ringed glass.
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