Open Poetry #33 |
The Garden of Love |
Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
The night has taken hold and I know the stars are there because some things never die they simply live on high and watch how gardens grow from youth into old age. Youth in t-shirt, running shoes, casually uplifts tufts of planted grass and seedlings of promise from the garden of love. Disfigured and uneven with the smooth flow interrupted adulthood skirts the path, digs another hole, and buries its head in an ego bed. Middle age and aching bones kneel but can’t get up from the effort of patching and repairing so it rolls to the side and continues to roll because it’s comfortable. Old age shuffles to the edge but too frail to take the strain shuffles back the way it came and remains the way it was. And the garden suffers yet in that suffering can bring forth roses, daffodils, within its sphere of influence and within a season deemed appropriate. To ask why now a daffodil and not a red, red, rose is to question one who knows when to plant and reap, when to rest the ground, and when to give bouquets with everything combined. But I still do want a rose, the red rose of your soul, so beautifully entwined with the power of your mind that plants in me a seed and reaps unknowingly each and every flower in the garden of my love! |
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DavePage Member Elite
since 2003-12-21
Posts 2917 |
Lovely words and obviously a problem for people as I think I am the first to comment. The grass lawn that is how love should be, complete with breadcrusts. Borders around the outside allowing within a structure to ideas acceptable that do not go too far unless it is a SUV. To be accepted and ego worshipped meeting your peer's expectations. I like your words, they are good and the hints of urban life very true to boredom of those who have it all and nothing they can remember - One Landed on the Cuckoo's Nest. Dave |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
enjoyed...James |
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