草莓樹上的莓果又紅了

 

草莓樹上的莓果又紅了

谷裏十月天

鄰家長籬外

常春藤蔓

染秋色

布朗谷路

西敏道邊

草莓樹上的莓果

又紅了

....

Strawberry Tree

It does not grow strawberries.

It grows bland-tasting, fuzzy globules

That ripen just before they drop,

Puce and squishy.

Unripe, the fruits are variously

Parrot green, plum yellow,

Tangerine or cardinal.

Flowers dangle beside them:

Wax shells tinged with pink,

Autumn-born and winter-lasting,

Delicate as snow.

Ever-green but ever-changing,

Ever-graceful with curved

Grey trunk and slender

Branches, it crouches

By the white road above the olive

Groves and vales of pines,

Bird-visited but not

Depleted, rich with its

Neglected harvest.

- Poem and Poet  Damaris West -

葉子（Yeh Tze)