A HANDFUL of cherries
She gave me in passing,
The wizened old woman,
And wished me good luck-
And again I was dreaming,
A boy in the sunshine,
And life but an orchard
Of cherries to pluck.

(C) Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
01/01/2000


Best Poems of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

• The Lonely Road
• Rupert Brooke
• Home
• The Messages
• The Blind Rower
• The Dancing Seal
• Cherries
• The Stone
• The Crane
• For G
• Worlds
• The Parrots
• Hoops
• Battle
• Geraniums
• Quiet
• Philip And Phoebe Ware
• The Gorse
• The Cakewalk
• Wings