One day’s picking from one small tree:
end of August; Cambridgeshire UK - amazing1
The Fig Harvest
I
marvel at the wonder of the fig tree.
However
do those hard green parcels,
within
two or three days
transform
themselves into soft
Luscious
spheres of sweetest beauty?
It
is another miracle of creation.
They
sit alongside those
exquisitely
veined fleshy leaves
that
for weeks hide the knotty hints
of
the harvest to come.
As
my tongue revels
in
the sweet, soft flesh,
may
I be thankful
for
the sweetness
of
God’s Holy Word
and
the abundance of
this
ever-amazing universe,
here
concentrated into
the
mysterious interior of a fig.
