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Blossoming Blue Elsewhere

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I learned to love blue-green blossoms.
You conditioned me well to think such roses
rise from a place of care.  I simpered over sticky
implications that I was your own, since you paid
five dollars for the license to grow me.
Any touch was touch better than none.
Weak women as righteous woman:
But I have sinned.  I grew beyond pruning,
my thorns pricked back and I left you
in the garden leaning on nothing more
than your hoe and a poor crop of next year’s
bad blooms. I transplanted well
and hardly ever feel your rough hand
digging at my roots to unearth me.

Author notes

I know, therefore I am. Pruned by not plucked. Growing in my own garden instead of someone else's.

painting - m mathiason

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  • Night Hope gold member
    February 12, 2007
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    "I transplanted well
    and hardly ever feel your rough hand
    digging at my roots to unearth me."

    Sighhh...Exquisite in its sorrow, my Friend...Good luck in the contest, Sweetie...


    "Freedom from the bondage of the soil is no freedome for the tree." ~ Rabindranth Tagore


  • Radiant-Beauty
    February 11, 2007
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    hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i don't know what to say but god luck in the contest

  • panegyric ink
    February 10, 2007

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    very sad. overall loved reading this poem you have so well expressed and as well loved the alliteration that you have thrown in as well!! Rhyme & meter are right on target.


  • suseann gold member
    February 10, 2007

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    A love nurtured,but not ravaged to ruin. A nice balanced everlasting kind. Lovely use of metaphores in this.~~Suseann


  • sheltered
    February 10, 2007

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    Nice. I loved that last line. I often have to read your work two or three times to get the meaning but it's always worth it.


  • Lady Editor
    February 10, 2007

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    Nice

    I love the poem...and the picture goes well with it too. This is way different from my entry, but good all the same. Good luck.
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