the tulip doesn’t know the word pink,
but lives it every day, warm
as the inside of a mouth
its petals don’t know their name
but the inner-breath of lovers
repeats it over and over,
like veins
it has never heard of the word bulb
yet from the dark earth
it pushes its heart ---
as headdress,
as opened light
Author notes
Prompt: From the Heart - live from deep within like tulips do...
In a list
A contest entry
- Small Expressions Seven: " Nine O'Clock Lightning" by Peteskid.
750 points, ended August 9, 2007, 14 entries
Gold trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest - Tulips by second-born.
450 points, ended November 5, 2007, 8 entries
Honorable mention
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
Comments
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I really Enjoyed This, Bravo On The Gold!
Peace, Timothy
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Wuah I love this one! I adore the tenderness you brought to your words that bring out this strong beauty of tulips that don't know much about themselves, still show all their beauty to the world. There are a lot of people like that in this world and it's a shame they don't know how to see all that beauty themselves.
Beautiful beautiful work with this one! Thanks for sharing this one!
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Thank you so much... glad you liked this one
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wow this was very sweet . you deserved the gold on that one . thanks for sharing
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Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!!! I love how you wrote from the point of view of the tulip and I love the imagery. The whole thing just flowed.
Amazing!
Always,
Cassie
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Beautiful... The imagery is fantastic.
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This was beautiful. Your descriptions were amazing, everything about this piece flowed so well and gave off such a stunning feel. I'm glad I got the chance to read this Congratulations on the trophies
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That was so very beautiful! I loved the imagery and I floated from one word to the next! Thank you for sharing!
Lauren
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Absolutely beautiful. I love the element of not knowing the true beauty of oneself.
Congratulations on your trophies.
Write on.
~*~SP~*~
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lovely thoughts poetess...
very lovely.
thanks for sharing this.
ephiphany
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beautiful thoughts, beautifully written
thank you for sharing
Tasha
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this is such a beautiful and unique piece of writting. it holds beauty within your words and left me thinking. well done
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This is such a very unique piece of penning. Beautiful and thought provoking imagery woven to touch the heart strings. Great write!
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Best thing I've read on this site so far.
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Thank you...!
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I have never heard tulips expressed so sensually. You gave these flowers more than heart. Congratulations on both the awards you received. This is a beautiful piece you have written. I love the picture you used too. I used to inspect flowers and the tulips were a big program. Most of them came over from Holland. I loved the red and white variety called peppermint. Thank you for sharing with me and keep writing poet. seamaiden ♥
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This poem is really beautiful, there's such a love for flowers and the image is all so lovely.
Síochán leat
~Mairéad~
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Awesome work here Nicolette!
I really love how you captured this
picture. Well done and congratulations
to you on your gold trophy! A truly
deserving piece here! Thanks a lot
for sharing this and keep it up!
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Oh I love this
its petals don’t know their name
but the inner-breath of lovers
repeats it over and over,
like veins
Very nice indeed much love
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"the tulip doesn’t know the word pink,
but lives it every day, warm
as the inside of a mouth "
Great opening stanza.
Great writing as always.
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wow…I love all the captivating and vibrant images of your poem…very heartwarming…thank you for sharing a very lovely poem…
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Its so lovely to see you here with your brilliant tulip piece! Extremely beautiful, again, for the third time!
~Namita
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Each piece of this is so lovely Nicolette as it takes us through the body of the tulip in metaphor with our own bodies. It's hard for me to pick a favorite part of such verses as each is essential to the entwinement of parts to make the poem whole and complementary. Simply lovely, warm and sensual indeed.
I imagine there are more gold poems of yours to read as I catch up...
Kimmie
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Hi Kim...good to see you back here. Thank you for the lovely comment.. you really don't have to read them all, lol
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I imagine if I take a poet a day for the next three months, I might be able to catch up. No sweat, huh?? lol
It will be worth the reading. All of them I'm most sure.
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Such a beautiful poem, I just had to come back and read it again... So warm... just beautiful!
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Thank you...you are most kind
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inner-breath...
I was reading some of your earlier work and came upon this gem! A very worthy winner of a gold trophy! This was very descriptive in an almost surreal way... a lovely poem full of passionate imagery!
Excellent!
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Thank you, arafura...for reading and the kind words
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Very warm, smooth and serene. Very sensual to the heart. Great job and congrats on the gold.
Candy
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there is a sensuality here - "warm as the inside of a mouth" conjures some pretty heady images! (intended or unintended).
tulips are a blessed flower..here in Canada they cost a pretty penny when in bloom in April/May - and i greatfully spend the money to lay them on my grandfather's grave at that time because he loved them too -
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Nice. This is all so true. I especially liked "warm
as the inside of a mouth". This poem is very insightful and says some things that need to be said. Nowadays we forget too often to think about what really matters...
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Thank you, Diana... glad you could take something from the tulips (my muse isn't very active lately, lol)
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Oh what beauty
How did you get into that flower and see so much. Oddly and I hope you won't be offended but my initial thoughts as I read this made me think it was sexual and the more I read it the more I continued to think, it's very sexual, but thats just me. I like the poem because it took me somewhere and even though it may not have been where your thoughts where, I truely enjoyed the image this work provoked.
My apologies for any offense this may induce.
Terry
PS keep writing
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Thank you for the kind comment, Terry - much appreciated! No apologies necessary as each of us take different things from a poem... I guess that's how it should be. And yes, you're not the first one who read sensuality into this tulip!
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thanks for the poetry lesson Nic, such rich, deep metaphors... wonderful stuff here...
al
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Thanks, Al - you are most kind
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Very lovely.
Congrats on the gold.
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oh this is wonderful-
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Thank you, Mary - btw...love your picture!
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I like the words caressing the readers moment in life. A bit melancholic yet filled with felicity. I like the transcendance of the words.
Words in your poetry will always catapult my heart and soul into the grounds of solace.
Thanks for sharing.
>>>VIRGOAN
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Thank you, Virgoan - such a lovely comment
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the tulips certainly know NOW the meaning of pink, tell me of one tulip who hasn’t read your poem and i tell you it is most probably a... rose . living in the land of tulips allows me to understand the magic of exploding bulbs and the magic of blossoming words
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Thank you, my friend...of course you know tulip-language
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Wow! Amazing write! Great descriptions enterwined with lively images that swim through my head as I read this one. Great language useage, that just ties it all together! Making it a really amazing write!
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beautiful... an absolutely
stunning write... such gorgeous descriptions... such vivid images and worded so eloquently and lovingly
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Four stars ****
Simply excellent.
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Thank you...
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nobody uses flower metaphors like you do Nic... you open our minds and hearts to all sorts of life and love through your allseeing eyes
beautimous
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"it has never heard of the word bulb
yet from the dark earth
it pushes its heart ---"
Wow, Nic...I got chills reading this beautiful piece, my Friend. A well~earned golden penning, Sweetie. Gorgeous as only you can do, my Sister. Love you, Woman. Vlindertjie
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like i said before, is the way you used word that really impress me, because i already know you are a giftted poet. reading this poem gave me a feeling that the tulips has to do with something more profound.
AAA work.
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Thanks, marctheman for the lovely comment - as always
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Beautiful Nic. Loved the line "yet from the dark earth
it pushes its heart ---". Congratulations on this well deserved gold.
~Lyrical
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Thanks, my friend... I'm waiting for one of yours...
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It's unbelievable how you always manage to come up with refreshing things, and still let it carry your skills so gracefully...
wonderful!
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As always, you are the master of flowers and words...queen of hearts, you are.
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Thank you, Zayra...oh, I love your picture...elegant, sensual & beautiful!!
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It's no wonder that you won this contest. Always beautiful and singularly.
You can outmatch even yourself
~Sonja~
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congrats on the gold, Nic...I love this one.... a beautiful, unique take on the prompt that wasn't about a storms...lol
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Thanks, Tara - I'm glad it wasn't about storms...my tulip wouldn't have survived, lol
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woww!
this is beautiful, and still holds style while talking about flowers... (many cannot...)
I love the descriptions.
especially "as the inside of a mouth"
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"but the inner-breath of lovers
repeats it over and over,
like veins"
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Oh my God Nic . . . I am almost weeping at the tender beauty that this piece contains . . . you always capture a tiny and fragile particle of the universe in your hands, open them and allow the rest of us to marvel at your insight. Your heart is the tulip . . . thank you for sharing its delicate petals with us here at AP . . . love Marc
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so beautiful
Sigh~
Soft and so lovely....Beautiful as tulips are ...
This is breathtaking and touches the heart...
Lynda
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Soothing...
I witnessed the Tulip in full bloom from the warmth of your words. I saw it living and breathing, for you gave it life. I felt its passion, for you gave it feelings... all from your heart, to mine. Thank you, Scribe!
Luscious Lines, my Friend. ~ Nicholas ~
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Words cannot express the abundance of soft sensuality, and tenderness in this, Nic. This is simply exquisite. I adore how you tied the "pink" metaphor into both the tulip and the warmth of inside the mouth. Wonderfully executed. "...yet from the dark earth it pushes its heart...." Sheer perfection! So much of your warmth wraps around the reader as they read this, Sweet Lady. The words are your embrace... Gorgeous! I've so missed reading you, dear one. I shall bask in these words for a while....
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Thank you, dear Mary - how wonderful to read your lovely words again, my friend... I've missed you too
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So beautiful my friend altough I have several tulip friends...and in their telepatic tongue they have confessed to know of the word "beautiful"...
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As suggested by the pink, inside of the mouth/kiss imagery, I like the subtle double entendre on the tulips' very name -- i.e. tulips = two lips. In fact, between the opening imagery of tulips as a sign of love and loving, to the mention of bulb and its push upward into a headress of opened light, there is a certain sexual under-current to the whole piece, even though it is rooted (no pun intended) in sensuality and romantic warmth. Pretty work here Nicolette.
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touching and warm
And you do not realize YOU are a tulip, and live and love as tulips do, and sigh and write like angels do, and feel and breathe like humans do. Such a soft, and delicate write here. It is always an honor and joy to be a part of your art, simply by viewing it. Simply lovely.
Blessed be,
Billie Jean
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Billie Jean, thank you, my friend, for the flowers of your words too. You placed a smile right in my heart.
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Very creative and beautiful, images of the lovely tulip flower and comparisons to lovers and loving thoughts, so very nice. Thank you for this fine entry into the contest and best of luck to you in the judging...PK
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yes...living from the heart...showing its love and light..allowing others to see it displayed from the core...more importantly than anything else...beautiful, deep message of love in this poem
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You gave this flower breath and pulled our hearts into the write, lovely penning and I see I did make it to the first read! ha! Wonderful vision you paint in soft words
~Tia
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he he he, just checking, thought I might get a first glimpse
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