I planted oleander along the path to my door
You plucked one
and tucked it behind your ear
You made a bouquet
of the marigolds and tulips
and tossed it into the air; it became
sunlight
In my window box, love lies bleeding
You planted snowdrops
to stanch the blood
You stood with me
beneath the willow's branches
and waited
until the rain stopped
and the sun dripped on us
like warm, sweet butter.
submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Kerry's Wed. Challenge, The Language of Flowers
key to flower symbolism:
oleander - warning
marigold - grief, pain
yellow tulip - hopeless love
love lies bleeding (amaranthus) - hopelessness
snowdrop - hope, consolation
willow - sadness
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. Leonard Cohen
13 comments:
A beautiful festoon of flowers:)
beautiful and intimate...i like the snow drops to staunch...and the sun like warm butter.....
I love the flowers becoming sunlight & drippking like warm sweet butter ~ Beautiful verses LM ~
I love the ending-warms my heart!
Heady profusion of blooms :D
mmmmm. butter. this is quite lovely, and i adore that Joan Armatrading song, too.
lovely, lolamouse ~
I like the selection of blooms you included (though I worry about the poisonous oleander) and how the meaning of each becomes clear. Beautiful words and associations.
This is SO BEAUTIFUL.....I especially loved that "you stood with me" until "the sun dripped on us like warm sweet butter." Brilliant.
Thanks for the meanings at the bottom - it is a beautiful poem of a journey many of us make. How interesting that humans have associated feelings and meaning with flowers... obviously, humans have been touched by them since the beginning of time!
A powerful flowerful write, Ms Mouse.
K
Beautifully intimate, romantic.
I am glad you listed the flowers' meanings as it gave your poem a whole different aspect when I reread it! Nice work!
beautiful imagery created with your words :)
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