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ignore the warning

feral thorny temptation

each bite worth the price

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Warning ignored, “feral thorny temptation” is so good!

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thank you!

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Apa, recollim

mores dolçes i agres -

surt sang dels llavis

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Blackberrying is something I've only ever done with Catalan people, so it seems natural to use Catalan in this case.

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Translation:

Let's go and gather

the sweet and sour blackberries -

blood drips from our lips

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Oh I love this! Catalan looks so much more Latiny than other Latinate languages… at least to me, idk😅

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The Isley Brothers: "The blacker the berry/the sweeter the juice."

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Idk, I feel like maybe they aren’t talking about fruit🤔

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The song from which this came from spends a lot of time talking about them eating a lot of filched fruit as kids, but I believe you are right...

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Left berries birds will eat

Spread seeds around

Gather leaves before fall.

Tea to curb Devils revenge.

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Ooo, are blackberry leaves good for the stomach? Or madness😜

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Diarrhea

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The Devil’s fruits, these:

Their stains are sin, dark and sweet.

Those thorns too he claims

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Love the tone of this, I just had to read it aloud🖤

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One red ripe berry

Remains on the bush to tempt

An unaware soul

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Oo such a nice visual!

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With each late summer

Young hands navigate the thorns

To pluck sweet, fat fruit

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Love the juxtaposition of young hands and thorns, it’s subtle, very cool🖤

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I spent a lot of time picking blackberries every summer as a kid; you know how they grow in California!😂

Blackberries, huckleberries, salmon berries and thimble berries...even the occasional wild strawberry!😁

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We have a bunch that grow on the nature preserve near us, we can’t pick them though.

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Why? Do they spray them?

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No, the rangers there just said we can’t because it’s a preserve.

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Thanks; I edited the first line, I think it flows better.

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Prickly devil fruit

not gentle to hold onto

but great throat lozenge

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Oo are they good for your throat? That’s so interesting, I had no idea.

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It turns the Greeks used blackberries to cure sore throats, and the Romans used them to cure various ailments.

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How cool! Thanks for the info😊

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The ghost grandfather

Fed the boy berries

On the Eve of Samhain

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Oo nice! I feel like there’s a whole story here, well done!

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Thank you! The Celtic feast of Samhain, on which Halloween is based, of a sort, is not a funny or childlike matter. It is the New Year, a night when the spirit and material world are almost inseparable. And it is not like the Day of the Dead. The Day of the Dead is about connecting with ancestors; Samhain is about keeping the crazy dead bastards on their side of the spirit wall

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Believe it or not, I am well versed in all things chthonic, behind a ghost and whatnot 😜

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1.

Stained lips like twilight

Blackberry kisses linger

On a lover’s skin

2.

Inkwell of the woods

Quill dipped in blackberry juice

Words bloom on the page

3.

Black juice drips from palms

Painted nails of a wild girl

Crafting her own art

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Wow, these are absolutely beautiful🖤

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I wanted to write something completely different yet about blackberries.

I’m so happy you like them. 😊

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I love them🖤

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We hadn't picked them,

We lied, stained with juice, and thus,

All caught red-handed... 😎

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Ha! Clever one!

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Haha! Thanks! 😎👍

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I love blackberries

So cold and sweet on my tongue

Dance of joy to taste

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In no way is this spooky or spooky adjacent, and I haven't written a haiku in FOREVER but I had a great time writing this one. Thanks for sharing such fun prompts!

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Aw it’s lovely! And not to worry, I don’t enforce any of my own rules, lol, any poem is welcome🖤

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