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Martie
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0 posted 2000-04-27 05:44 PM


Breathing Bees

Remember last year
when I said...

The morning glories
are at it again, love,
in their bold blue
they have considered the fence
and conquered it in a blink,
then to the rose bush,
blushing and shy
with thorns at point.

They slide their tendrils
across the porch and meander
across the deck in periwinkle splendor,
the bee squeezes out humming high
to look and see such dotted bliss
across the yards and up the telephone pole
across the wires where GTE sighs.

Remember, how glorious last spring,
they covered our private domain
and with what reverence I held them
for the memory they brought
of back yard and sipping sweet nectar
from their lips
this child so carefree
in delight at spring
where the weeds were tall and green
and the plum tree horse bloomed out.

Remember how, come fall we pulled
our spent backs on the withered remains
and swore them to be gone
with their voracious appetite for taking over
even conversation with tinted color
so true and vibrant that a day could not
see sky or stream to match
or eyes ever strong enough with pigment,
to be so sweet this color.

Well love, while walking only steps
from our front door
I saw them moving
from the neighbor’s chain-link
and they were on there way to send
just a bloom or two our way
as a reminder that while we’re sleeping,
the movement through our dreams that lights
the dark sky with vivacious hue,
in morning’s glory will be nestled
beneath our windowsill breathing bees.



[This message has been edited by Martie (edited 04-27-2000).]

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Danny Holloway
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since 2000-01-15
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Tulsa, OK
1 posted 2000-04-27 05:55 PM


Martie, enjoyed reading this verse....you sure capture the essence of nature.
Martie
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2 posted 2000-04-27 08:54 PM


Danny, thank you...I'm glad you enjoyed this verse.
Rosemary J. Gwaltney
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since 1999-08-26
Posts 997
northern mountains, Idaho
3 posted 2000-04-27 09:28 PM


Oh, what a glorious poem!  I love your flower poetry!  When I saw "breathing bees", I could not imagine, and the discovery of such beauty was a real treat.  I love morning glories too! But your descriptions of them as the living entities they are, are enchanting!

hoot_owl_rn
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since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA
4 posted 2000-04-27 09:42 PM


again your visual imagery is beyond compare  
Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22
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5 posted 2000-04-27 11:42 PM


you make this landscapers heart smile with this beautiful poem..you are SO good at this!!(smile)
perfection again...from your poets pen.
take care, jm


 Is it too much to find an answer,
Is it too much to hold you close.
Is it too much to find a reason,
Is it too much to free my soul --
From self control ...
And I know you're always waiting for me ...
You take me far away,
And I know you're holding me ...
And it's better now ...
~vertical horizon~



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