Famous Short Pears Poems

Famous Short Pears Poems. Short Pears Poetry by Famous Poets. A collection of the all-time best Pears short poems

Heat  

 O wind, rend open the heat,
cut apart the heat,
rend it to tatters.


Fruit cannot drop
through this thick air--
fruit cannot fall into heat
that presses up and blunts
the points of pears
and rounds the grapes.


Cut the heat--
plough through it,
turning it on either side
of your path.

Pears  

 Some say
it was a pear
Eve ate.

Why else the shape
of the womb,
or of the cello
Whose single song is grief
for the parent tree?
Why else the fruit itself
tawny and sweet
which your lover
over breakfast
lets go your pear-
shaped breast
to reach for?

The Tropics in New York  

 Bananas ripe and green, and ginger-root,
Cocoa in pods and alligator pears,
And tangerines and mangoes and grape fruit,
Fit for the highest prize at parish fairs,

Set in the window, bringing memories
Of fruit-trees laden by low-singing rills,
And dewy dawns, and mystical blue skies
In benediction over nun-like hills.


My eyes grew dim, and I could no more gaze;
A wave of longing through my body swept,
And, hungry for the old, familiar ways,
I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.

Rich Days  

 Welcome to you rich Autumn days, 
Ere comes the cold, leaf-picking wind; 
When golden stocks are seen in fields, 
All standing arm-in-arm entwined; 
And gallons of sweet cider seen 
On trees in apples red and green.


With mellow pears that cheat our teeth, 
Which melt that tongues may suck them in; 
With blue-black damsons, yellow plums, 
Now sweet and soft from stone to skin; 
And woodnuts rich, to make us go 
Into the loneliest lanes we know.

There was an Old Person of Chili  

There was an Old Person of Chili,
Whose conduct was painful and silly;
He sate on the stairs, eating apples and pears,
That imprudent Old Person of Chili.

Pairs Or Pears  

Twelve pairs hanging high,
Twelve knights riding by,
Each knight took a pear,
And yet left a dozen there.

There was an old person of Minety  

There was an old person of Minety,
Who purchased five hundred and ninety
Large apples and pears, which he threw unawares
At the heads of the people of Minety.