Wild Cherry, Rum Cherry or Black Choke
A deciduous fast growing veneer
Bitter almond aroma the scent of your bark
Ever a sight to admire throughout the year
You flavor my brandy on cold winter nights
as I sit upon furniture made of you
And think of the musical instruments
tool handles & gun stocks of your beauty too
You grow in springtime so delicately in my dreams
Brilliance in fall colors is a show for my guests
Lowland and upland woods especially along streams
a gardener’s delight with an abundant harvest
Medicinal usage of your twigs, roots and fruits
A tonic from the Native Americans spreading far
Key ingredient in pemmican for the winter months
Fruit, meat and fat so that they didn’t starve
Glossy green leaves in shades of yellow and rose in fall
Beware they are poisonous to life stock
Grow 50 – 80” with a shape that is Pyramidal
Best black cherries ripened, when the birds and I flock
Author notes
Picture credit:
Cherry Blossoms on Cinnabar II
By Janet Tava
http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/PD--13018790/SP--A/IGID--2264970/Cherry_Blossoms_on_Cinnabar_II.htm?sOrig=SCH&ui=F36119D4C0EB45AC9A6605C3BE0E3757
A contest entry
- Le Jardin Fruitier by ea.
500 points, ended September 10, 2007, 8 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
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Delightful
Oh this is truly ripe. LOL. Pardon the pun. I loved it. Wonderful flow and rhyme in here. Beautiful beautiful work and the painting is marvelous. Well done. ~Pamela
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well done dearest xxx written with much detail and grand information - some of which i hadn't known . well done dear xoxo
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You are so smart writing tree poem!
It looks like a tree poem and smells like one and sounds like one so it must be one! A lovely write! 
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cherries, nice and you did a great job with the rhyme and I wish you the best of luck, for this piece made me see the fruit even if I do not like them. enjoy your cherries and next time add in the bing cherry.
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