APPLETHOUGHTS

Tuesday Poetics, and HA has asked us to
turn our poetic talents to the apple.
Submitted to dVerse
March 4, 2020
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away
or so it’s told to me
and I’m assured the apple
doesn’t fall far from the tree

There’s a lot of folklore 

with which we seem to grapple
about Eve and the asp in the garden

and, of course,  Adam's apple

Just one bad apple, they tell us
will spoil the entire barrel
but an apple for the teacher
is much-desired desk apparel

Mary can’t sit under the apple tree
til Johnny comes marching back
and rumor has it, so I heard
he left with an apple in his sack

It was poison in the apple
that felled our sleeping beauty
she’d likely be still asleep
if the prince hadn’t done his duty

It seems there are apples everywhere
in songs we sing and books we read
and amazingly we owe it all
to that vagabond John Appleseed.