Almost Niksen* In The Boondocks Of The Southern Peloponnese

--for Ans and Peter, outstanding Dutch experts

in the field of observing Mother Nature 

 

I’m not counting but I suppose 

There are many other more 

Fruitful things to do 

 

With one’s precious 

Time than to sit 

In a director’s 

 

Chair facing the warm 

Winter sun, slowly peeling 

And then eating 

 

One of the too numerous 

To count oranges freshly 

Picked from the garden 

 

Of the Milk and Honey House, 

Then spitting out 

The seeds one-by-one, 

 

Watching them bounce 

Off the stone 

Patio till they come 

 

To rest in the grass 

Under the green 

Limbs of a benevolent, 

 

Bountiful Mother. 

 

 

 

* https://time.com/5622094/what-is-niksen/