Rich luscious, bursting with juice <br />Big as your thumb <br />Cool from the morning dew <br />Sweet as only wild berries can be <br /> <br />Vines tall <br />Thick as a pencil <br />Barbs everywhere <br />Quick to catch your clothes <br />Or draw blood <br /> <br />Leaves tender <br />Green and dripping with dew <br />Hiding the berries <br />Or perhaps a stink bug <br />Or a tick or a snake <br /> <br />White flowers <br />Lasting only for a day <br />Pure white <br />Open for a visiting bee <br /> <br />Detritus from the past <br />Rich mold harboring <br />An untold wealth of <br />Memories of what has <br />Come before <br /> <br />This is the battlefield <br />Where soldiers met <br />Where cannons blazed <br />And riffles cracked <br />Where charge of one side <br />Met the other <br />and brave men died. <br /> <br />Memorial Day <br />Colonial Heights, Virginia<br /><br />Sidi J. Mahtrow<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/blackberries/
