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- January 9, 2021
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- Andrew Carter
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Indian Guava
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleThis is lovely, Andrew. I am very intrigued by the “blooming in stages”, with its multiple meanings. Can you tell us more?
Hello Juma, thanks for your comment. You have the ever inquisitive, and intuitive, nature of a poet, and writer. I pictured the guava well before it was named ‘guava’ , ‘Indian guava’ or, ‘Apple of the tropics’ so, it’s partly about nomenclature – the stages of names that bloom into human consciousness. Also, I was delighted to see the bud’s physical stages and uploaded a pic to Unsplash before downloading back from… Read more »
Thanks so much for your deeper discussion, Andrew! When I first read your “blooming in stages” phrase, I thought of a person’s development also occurring in stages – body, mind and spirit. How exciting it is to always be growing and blooming, like your Indian Guava! If you uploaded to Unsplash, the picture must be from your own garden? Forgive my ignorance, but does New South Wales have a tropical climate? You… Read more »
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleThankfully, your reply prompted me to investigate further. I’m always losing my labels and I had an inkling this one might actually be an Amman Guava which grows well in cooler ‘subtropical’ climates, such as here, in NSW. It’s from my garden and, funnily enough, I was trying to avoid identification errors such as the one that Susan Dawson correctly identified in Red Orchid. A while ago, I was cooking with Pineapple… Read more »
This is so interesting. It’s so nice to find out what exactly are the writer’s thoughts and inspirations behind a haiku. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks, Katy, just a bit of fun at the end there. A timely post as I’ve only just recently had my mystery trees identified. Both the Amman guava and the Cherry guava are fruiting here (summer’s end).
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