Saturday, January 19, 2013

Fruit of the Vine



Saturday Centus has rolled around again, and today Jenny has asked us to respond to the tomato prompt pictured below. In her usual magnanimous way, she has allowed us 100 words to make our mark.

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Fruit of the Vine
©2013 Susan Noyes Anderson
 
I am yours and you are mine,
grown together on the vine
of life and love and days well spent,
formed and fed by blessings sent:

Sun and rain in heaven's measure,
elements of pain and pleasure,
rising up and reaching down,
seeking sky and breaking ground.

Give and take, bitter and sweet,
nature paints a work complete.
Opposition yields the force...
turns our leaves toward the Source. 

Holding fast to God's own vine,
I am yours and you are mine.


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19 comments:

Grandma Honey said...

I lovet this! It would make an excellent poem to include on a wedding card. My favorite line is, "You are mine and I am yours." Doesn't get much sweeter than that.

Grandma Honey said...

Sorry, I mean to write, "I am yours and you are mine."
Beautiful!

Lynn said...

Very nice! I think everyone is hoping to find their very own tomato:@)

Brian Miller said...

abide in that vine....and it will make your own love all the sweeter...smiles.

Pondside said...

How beautiful! As someone said - you have written this for a bride and groom as perfectly as for a golden anniversary couple.

Gail said...

A++++++++++++++++++++

21 Wits said...

Wonderful poem, and one of my favorite songs of all time. Gee, fresh ripes tomatoes and a cool song, and it's still brrrrrr outside!

momto8 said...

a beautiful poem of love!!

karen said...

Beautiful Sue! I'm write this one down so I don't forget it.

Bookie said...

Oh this is very nice...glad I checked back tonight!

yaya said...

Oh Sue, you look at a pic of tomatoes and write a beautiful, romantic poem..I look at the pic and think...hmmm..BLT...probably because that's what I had for dinner and probably because I'm not a talented writer! You're a gem! Love it!

Bethe77 said...

Just beautiful
Blessings

LeAnn said...

Just lovely! You are amazing. I would love a book of your poems published. Do It!
Blessings and hugs!!

Karen Mortensen said...

I do have to come up with other words besides wow, beautiful and wonderful. You are an amazing writer.

BECKY said...

Very sweet!

Amy said...

Aw, this is so sweet! I will never see tomatoes the same way again. :)

EG CameraGirl said...

It amazes me that you got these words from this photo! I love your creative thinking.

Karen Sue said...

having fresh tomato sadness. Just don't enjoy them enough when they are growing for me..now it's snow time..missing them.

Darlene said...

I'm with Kathy......I looked at the tomato and all I could think of is what a mess we made of things when we tried to grow a couple of tomato plants.

How you could have gotten a love story from this is more than I can fathom. You are something else.

I did like the poem, by the way.