The Orange

The Orange

A Poem by Delmar Cooper

The Orange

The Jaffa oranges are in

But you must buy the crate

You must take your chances

 Some years so sweet

Winter weeps at the memory

Some years astringent tears

I will find a friend

Gamble, and split a crate

Sweet or tart

It is no matter to the grocer

© 2014 Delmar Cooper


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I love this wonderful poem and the title drew me in to read it because when I was growing up in Ireland, we looked forward to the arrival each year of Jaffa oranges which came wrapped in a special paper in a timber crate. They were the juiciest, sweetest oranges of all and with a beautiful flavour not found in any other orange. I haven't seen them in a very long time in Ireland in recent years, sadly. A wonderful idea to buy the crate and half the oranges with a friend! I would very gladly halve my crate with you if I lived near you, dear Delmar. I love this poem, so charmingly inked and Thank you! for the trip through reading your poem back to yesteryear where sweet memories of Jaffa oranges still linger. Lovely work! Thank you for sharing...

Posted 4 Months Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Delmar Cooper

3 Months Ago

Thanks for your gracious comment. I have only seen them in the small wooden crates. I worked for a.. read more
Marie

3 Months Ago

How lovely wo work at a produce store, Delmar. I can only imagine the assortment of produce which yo.. read more



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i see a metaphor here...we need to be all in or not in at all...we can't just tip-toe around life,
trying this or that...we have to commit to goals and buy the whole crate of dreams...sweet or tart...we will have both eventually...it is how we digest them.

Posted 10 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

These were a big export for Palestinian growers for years. First Arabs then after 1947 the Israelis. An orange is an orange.

Posted 10 Years Ago


I love these poems that can be taken literally and also applied to life in general, great job.

Posted 10 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Brilliant take on the progression of life and how we must take it as it comes, good or bad. And indeed, in the end, it matters not to the 'grocer.'

Beccy.

Posted 10 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Delmar Cooper

10 Years Ago

Thank you for reading and for your take on meaning. It is good to know how someone else perceives a.. read more

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Delmar Cooper
Delmar Cooper

Trussville, AL



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