Ode To The Orange

I just unpacked a 3kg net of navel oranges.  They were so fragrant of sweetness and sunshine,  I had to pay homage to them: 

 

Oh Orange I love you

You are a small globe of Sunshine

Your juice is like nectar 

Your flesh is the goodness of life

Your fragrance breathes warmth into the darkness of winter.

You are beautiful.

 

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It's one of the Australian  poems I had to study years ago when I did Leaving (HSC) English Literature at night school. I can't really remember what I was taught about the meaning and imagery, but I liked the sound of it and some lines from it have remained in my memory all these years.

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