100 words to inspire a poem for Sunday. My poem follows.
Apple secrets
Deer flit,
shadows amid the shade,
about the glade, sun-warm,
about the pool, cool-deep,
that spills spangles
like leaves
beneath an apple tree,
age-bent, lichen-hoary,
above the sun-glint,
above the water,
and an apple falls,
green-red,
and a fish rises
to taste, to eat,
mouthing secrets,
while I watch
and wonder,
what wisdom
has been learnt this day,
by fish, by me,
as the apple sinks
with its secrets,
and the deer slip
silent away.