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Open Poetry #12

Lady Blue-Bonnet

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2001-03-11 10:28 AM

Lady Blue-Bonnet
Virginia Salter

lady blue-bonnet
perched with cane
still supplies life-giving water
to her quaint domain

flowers flourish
color life as I walk by
greet the day with sunny smiles
as she grins at me

when I return to pass again
she’s no longer standing
but on bended knee
she digs the soil
removing weeds that dare to try
sneaking past her eagle’s eye

this time
I do not speak
for I’m in awe,
somewhat ashamed
of how I suffer in like endeavor

for I am younger than she,
yet will not endure such misery

© July 14, 2000

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

1 posted 2001-03-11 10:30 AM

This is nice. I can hardly wait to get out into my garden, but its still too cold

Kit McCallum

Administrator

Member Laureate

since 2000-04-30

Posts 14774
Ontario, Canada

2 posted 2001-03-11 10:34 AM

What a lovely picture you've presented in my minds eye ... vivid imagery Virginia. I've admired similar scenes as well, wishing I had the "green thumb" myself. Very nicely written!

Best wishes,
/Kit

Mike
Member Elite

since 1999-06-19

Posts 2462

3 posted 2001-03-11 03:27 PM

enjoyed your poem...

JLR
Senior Member

since 2001-02-04

Posts 1785

4 posted 2001-03-11 03:59 PM

This is the first time in all the dreary winter that I have felt perhaps spring will be brighter. I could see her...and am ashamed to say, I, neither, would endure such misery. But then again...maybe this spring! Thank you for this!

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