Sweet Seduction

Sweet, succulent seduction
born from summer’s breast,
reaching down like rainbow beads,
bearing Heaven’s best.  

Swollen seeds surrendering
their pungent, rare perfume,
cords of life, umbilically
grow long beneath green plumes. 

Tropical temptations tease
Eve as Adam falls. 
Young boys with buckets scramble
uninvited top stone walls.  

Lovers lured by lustrous milk,
red nipples ripe to flow,
taunted, hungry hearts await,
mouth-watering mangoes!

Poem by Laura Richardson
Painting “Mangoes Ripening in the Sun” by Sir Roland Richardson