Just as a reminder: daily poetry, with a weekly archive will be going away in May to make way for my Project of Awesome.
I’ll see you again in June.
Olive
A branch, offered: shady
grove, Mediterranean
sun providing unique,
tiny ovals of joy.
Core cuisine, oleaceae
cultural cornerstone,
biblical sacrifice;
sign, disaster at end.
Greek medicine, anoint
athletes and kings, crown
glory; sacrament, poetic
Odyssey carves cults.
Such humble fruit, devolved
ingredient, component
ancient history: cornerstone
pitted, removed; discarded.
Hues through green and red,
tastes across tongue, remind
warmer climes, happier times
tree of life, past combined.
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