Shedding Peach Fuzz

Watching my children grow

 

Shedding Peach Fuzz

 

When do children

Shed their peach fuzz sheen?

When are they both heard and seen?

When they smash our home-grown tomatoes?

Divert us with exploding potatoes?

Upend our sweet expectations?

Refuse to join our vacations?

 

Even a peach can slam a door,

Curse like never before

For a mild mannered snack

Attack and attack and attack.

 

And every battering yam,

Smashing down the door,

Shreds our poise

With its noise.

And though we should not be

We’re shocked as before

When a peach morphed

To nectarine in haste

Lays latency to waste.

Reviews

[Krystal Waters]

Do you like food? I liked the way you used the peach to form a picture of what childhood becomes... to both adult and to the child. The last: When a peach morphed to nectarine in haste lays latency to waste. I think you are sayng that sometimes kids do things we don't expect at all. If I am way off let me know.


Kristine

[Gary H]

This is great work as usual. Was the inspiration from the 'fruit' of your loins if you see what I mean? Growing up too quick is always something that kids do until they become adults and then wish they had taken their time over the youthful days, found a bit more time for their mothers and fathers. I guess we were/are all guilty or is it just me?

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I love this poem because it describes teenage adolencent behavior- something I can definitely relate to! I have five children of my own; I know, I'm asking for it! Very well written!

[J. Duran]

I guess I'm the same way, fuzz all over my face.
Though I even as a Junior in high school I can't seem
to get real facial hair. lol
Fantastic, Great Job, for a relatable poem!!!
-J. Duran

[Paul Grimsley]

this is cool. reading a spread of someone's work in a single day allows you to see a commonality of touch in the way that ideas are approached and i hope i am not too far off base when i say that you seem to craft a poem with an apparently smooth surface which has a lot of things whirring about under the surface. it is not the easiest thing to and i suppose is somehow reminiscent of the latency of which you speak.