Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FORGOTTEN ORCHARD, by MURIEL DOE THURNEYSEN



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FORGOTTEN ORCHARD, by                    
First Line: The air is sweet with apples ripening
Last Line: Must touch no windfall in the tangled grass.
Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Orchards; Voices


The air is sweet with apples ripening
In this forgotten orchard, where each tree
Still finds its branches burdened frequently,
Though there has long been none to care or bring
Ladder and basket to the harvesting.
Here birds and deer keep curious company;
By right of use, it is their property
And they may well think we are trespassing.
Our voices have an unfamiliar sound;
Brambles and firs catch at our alien feet
As if we were not meant to pause, but pass . . .
Though we were not the ones forsook this ground,
Some spirit stays our hand -- we may not eat,
Must touch no windfall in the tangled grass.





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