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Open Poetry #49

One with the petals

EmmaRose
Senior Member

since 2011-03-02

Posts 1376
Midwest

0 posted 2014-05-14 12:10 PM

Yesterday's rain wraps round the porch
providing the respite
for both tree and loose petal

I watched how you swept them
in the deluge of pink frost
wild from the sky, from
the anchor of tree branch

they'll keep coming, you said
and they did, 5 minutes
after you swept them, they'd cover
the lawns of suburbia

so now, you are one with them
as the light towards the afterlife
embalms your warm spirit

and in the stroke of the broom
in its mechanical drudgery
I know now I sweep
with both meaning and memory

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2014-05-14 12:19 PM

This is nothing short of being magical, Emma. Such a vibrant and delightful poem of understand the ways of life and death. I was deeply touched by it.

~*~ Sex on television can't hurt you unless you fall off. ~*~

latearrival
Member Ascendant

since 2003-03-21

Posts 5499
Florida

2 posted 2014-05-14 09:02 PM

Very nice thoughts.

Enjoyed Jo

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

3 posted 2014-05-15 08:27 AM

EmmaRose reading your poetry is like getting to spend a moment with a special friend...Your words are a pleasure.

Lori

Redstart
Senior Member

since 2014-05-16

Posts 535

4 posted 2014-05-16 03:29 PM

Wonderful images created for me. Each reader takes personal images from a poem. I'm engrossed in images of cherry blosson, lost to the wind. Pink frost is an indelible image. Beautifully expressed.

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