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VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2001-07-02 01:17 PM

I Am Portulaca
Virginia Salter

Early summer morn
you’ll find me
face to the sun
arms reaching
stealing every ray
that beams its love within reach
pulling in the vitamins
pulling in life

by midday,
fully agape drinking ground’s moisture
lapping at the sunshine
smiling joy from petal to petal
entranced in the glow

yet as the warm moves up
to greater heights and goals
I begin to draw in each petal
as if heading for the shoal
pulling each atop my head
sheltering inside
cringing for the cool
away from summer’s tide

© July 2, 2001

Interloper

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-06

Posts 8369
Deep in the heart

1 posted 2001-07-02 01:23 PM

And I thought you were Virginia

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

2 posted 2001-07-02 01:25 PM

hmmm sounds like this one has roots...

enjoyed VAS

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

3 posted 2001-07-02 01:28 PM

thanks, you two, you gave me a giggle

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

4 posted 2001-07-02 01:37 PM

I love portulaca...good description of what I know of you too...It's a happy, sun-loving plant, hardy and bloom profusely. Perfect comparison!

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

5 posted 2001-07-02 03:56 PM

Wow, Serenity, I'd had looked at that aspect at all, it is kind of nice to think of me blooming profusely instead of being totally too prolific with my poetry. Thanks for thinking that way.

Poeminister
Senior Member

since 2000-02-26

Posts 1862
Regina SK; Canada

6 posted 2001-07-02 04:10 PM

Lovely descriptions and image. Nicely penned.

Lone Wolf
Member Ascendant

since 2000-03-16

Posts 5842
Lansing, MI USA

7 posted 2001-07-02 04:11 PM

I loved the imagery in this. Fine job, Virginia.

All writing comes
by the grace of God.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trillium

Member Patricius

since 2001-03-09

Posts 12098
Idaho, USA

8 posted 2001-07-02 05:18 PM

This is so imaginative! I really enjoyed it.

Betty Lou Hebert

Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

9 posted 2001-07-02 07:47 PM

Virgina, this is what I saw through your words, and a beatuiful picture it was in my mind too, well done!

If I have made you smile today, then I have done my job! ~* Mysteria *~

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