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    The poem describes a wife making a fruit salad after recovering from a fever. It notes the different fruits used - papaya, banana, mango, macapuno, raisins, and nuts - and how they are gently mixed together. The author likens the balancing of different flavors and textures in the fruit salad to balancing the highs and lows of life. The main theme is about embracing life's transitions, both good and bad, just as one enjoys the mixed flavors in a fruit salad.

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    The poem describes a wife making a fruit salad after recovering from a fever. It notes the different fruits used - papaya, banana, mango, macapuno, raisins, and nuts - and how they are gently mixed together. The author likens the balancing of different flavors and textures in the fruit salad to balancing the highs and lows of life. The main theme is about embracing life's transitions, both good and bad, just as one enjoys the mixed flavors in a fruit salad.

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    The poem describes a wife making a fruit salad after recovering from a fever. It notes the different fruits used - papaya, banana, mango, macapuno, raisins, and nuts - and how they are gently mixed together. The author likens the balancing of different flavors and textures in the fruit salad to balancing the highs and lows of life. The main theme is about embracing life's transitions, both good and bad, just as one enjoys the mixed flavors in a fruit salad.

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    The poem describes a wife making a fruit salad after recovering from a fever. It notes the different fruits used - papaya, banana, mango, macapuno, raisins, and nuts - and how they are gently mixed together. The author likens the balancing of different flavors and textures in the fruit salad to balancing the highs and lows of life. The main theme is about embracing life's transitions, both good and bad, just as one enjoys the mixed flavors in a fruit salad.

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    Fruit Salad

    Author
    • Jaime L. An Lim was born in Cagayan de Oro City in 1946. He received his AB
    English, cum laude, from Mindanao State University. A writing fellow at the
    Silliman National Writers Workshop (1973) and the UP Writers Workshop
    (1974), he won an Honorable Mention for fiction from Focus (1973), and
    many other notable awards such as the Don Palanca Memorial Award.

    • He recently retired as a professor of English from MSU-Iligan Institute of


    Technology where he organized the Mindanao Creative Writers Group, Inc.,
    and founded the Iligan National Writers Workshop. He is presently the Dean
    of the Institute of Arts and Sciences of Far Eastern University, Manila.
    Poem
    • Newly recovered from a fever, my wife •It never ceases to amaze me, every time,
    Is back in the kitchen. Nurturer, This magical act of hers, how in her quick
    Nourisher, stoker of the hearth fires Sure hand the commonplace turns into
    Of our stomach, she is assembling something
    The ingredients of a simple fare, a fruit salad. Special, a nourishment of startling shapes,
    Crisp papaya cubes, not quite ripe, pale green startling colors.
    Turning subtly orange and red at the edges. She seems happy now, though a week ago she
    Banana, creamy yellow, each round slice was not.
    Marked with a perfect star in the middle. It is all a matter of delicate balance.
    Diced ripe mango, nuggets, of the richest gold, You take life in all its various weathers,
    And macapuno, freshly scraped, in soft milky In equal measure, happy and sad,
    ribbons. The way you eat a delicious fruit salad:
    Then a handful of raisins, a sprinkling In spoonful after grateful spoonful,
    Of nuts for contrast in taste and texture. The green with the golden, the soft with the hard
    All gently mixed, folded, chilled
    Persona
    • The author himself
    Purpose and Theme
    • The main theme of the poem was basically about life. It highlights the
    fragility of life, how at one moment you’re up and the next time you
    know it you’re down. Life passes you by in moments, whether you’re
    ready for them or not you embrace them. The author likens these
    transition to that of a fruit salad. With all its contrasting flavors, it still
    finds a way to harmonize all those flavors to produce a delicious tasty
    treat. Just like how we as persons try to balance our life with all its highs
    and lows.

    • “Life is but a surge of transitions”


    • “You take life as it comes to you”

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