The Flower (From The KoKo Book)

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Open Poetry #25

The Flower (From The KoKo Book)

KoKo
Senior Member

since 2003-02-15

Posts 995
Inside the shadow's shadow

0 posted 2003-02-16 12:15 PM

One morning I sat at the window pane
Watching a flower, simple, plain,
Give birth to itself
In the morning sun
And watched how beautiful
It had become.

I stayed there at that window pane
And watched that flower
(Once simple and plain)
Kill itself
As the sun went down
Below the horizon shelf.

And that same night I stayed at the pane
And watched that flower
(Once again simple and plain)
Take a night-long bath
In twinkling dew
Is this the primrose path?
Is this how nature
Comes undone
And gives birth to itself
When the night is done?
I stayed at the pane
For many days
And watched that flower,
Moonbeams, and sun rays
And how they controlled
The flower's life
And how it aloud itself to die everynight
Without one single sign of strife.

I watched the flower
Go from ordinary and plain
To booming, bold and
What life it gained!
And not a word did she say
Not once did she complain
About her routine
Of dying in vain
For she always came back
To greet the sun
And how I wish to be her;
That flower, that one.
But I'd have just one problem:
I fear that the sun
Wouldn't be there to greet me
And I'd have no way to run
And find the sun that
Had tricked me so
And alone I'd be dead
Unable to live and grow.

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
--Chang Tzu

Albert J. Allie
Senior Member

since 2003-02-13

Posts 512
Queens NY

1 posted 2003-02-16 12:17 PM

I love your words.....More please!

KoKo
Senior Member

since 2003-02-15

Posts 995
Inside the shadow's shadow

2 posted 2003-02-16 12:22 PM

LoL! "You can't order a poem like you order a taco.
Walk up to the counter, say, I'll take two
and expect it to be handed back to you
on a shiny plate." -Excerpt from "Valentine For Ernest Man" by Naomi Shihab Nye...

But you put a great smile on my face! Thank you so much for your kind words and all the smiles you keep giving me

You're too kind! (=

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
--Chang Tzu

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

3 posted 2003-06-07 04:36 PM

Flowers sleep at night...don't they...James

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