FIGS

Fig and Self-Portrait

© Joy Krauthammer

Figs

by Joy Krauthammer

Clustered all the way from Gan Eden

beneath giant green leaves,

figs, tender, large, luscious, plump, purple, fresh figs,

ooze white sap when plucked.

In bliss, I lift each sweet sensuous one

up to You.

Birthed to enjoy through and through

I taste the mysterious, mystical treasure,

delicate, dry skin and moist within,

ripe, bursting forth magenta flesh.

I release from the fruit

holy sparks of life. Satisfied

I feel them sparkle

in my mouth 

and as they travel throughout my being.

Figs on the tree, I bequeath

to G*d's wild life, other creatures

to glean and feast in joy.

I prune Your trees

and share barren fig scions,

branches filled with potential,

with others to plant 

and grow their own fig tree.

On Tu B'Shvat

may roots be blessed

may sap flow

and may buds soon blossom.

          ~ ~ ~  

Excerpt from Manna From Heaven

Read at Tu B'Shvat Seders by Joy Krauthammer

"In that day (of Torah and peace)...everyone will invite his friend in fellowship under his vine and under his fig tree." (Zechariah 3:10)

Enjoy my devotion of 

FIGs: Photos and Poems 

http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2013/02/manna-from-heaven.html

http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2013/02/figs.html

http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2013/02/fig-tree-at-sinai.html

http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2013/12/fig-tree-gives-again.html

http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2014/01/hummingbird-on-fig-tree.html

http://joys-garden.blogspot.com/2013/02/fig-tree-collages.html

http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2013/08/haiku-fig-etiquette.html

http://joys-joyousjoy.blogspot.com/2012/08/gds-fig-tree-parshat-ki-tavo-moses.html

http://www.chabad.org/theJewishWoman/article_cdo/aid/626326/jewish/Manna-From-Heaven.htm