The Apples of Idunn

All hail the Apple


Perennial fruit of health!


That which keeps the doctor away.


Medium of tests,


Such as the shaking of Holle´s tree.


Medium of schemes,


Such as the poisoned ones of tales.


This Apple


Is a mighty fruit!


Often not given its due


In this modern age


Of widespread transport


Bringing fruit from all places


To a store near each of us.


Yet the Apple holds a higher place


As the Guardian of the Gods


Keeping Age and Death at bay


And thwarting even Time.


Who is worthy to carry them,


These incarnations of Life Force?


It is the graceful Idunn,


Goddess of Rejuvenation,


Who bears the miraculous fruit.


Science has proven


What the ancients knew from experience.


That which Idunn brings


Bestows health and wellness


Upon those who partake of it.


So hail to the Apple,


Hail to the Great Goddess Idunn!


Hail also to the community


That She sustains! 

--  Robert L. Schreiwer, 2019