Coddled, nurtured,
ideal conditions encircle
this hothouse baby.
I lift tender greens
to filtered brilliance -
spiring summit sports
bud cluster,
from which I
condescend to console
shorter siblings.
Selected
(one assumes)
for my poised beauty,
and whisked away...
Pushed and squeezed
from tiny pocket,
pristine ivory rootball
wrenched, ruptured,
twisted
into agonal quarters,
bottom mass avulsed
and tossed away.
Gloried height,
comely crest
shorn -
degraded and demeaned,
dropped down,
warm soil enveloping
severed strands,
fed and watered...
What? You want me
to grow?
After what you just did?
When nothing I did before
was good enough for you?
Your smile asks me to trust,
assures me that you care.
Humbled,
broken roots reach
into soil, stretching away
from self-absorption’s
fibrous husk,
expanding as if to
nourish greatness;
while my amputated apex
finds fullness
in six-fold spires.
Author notes
avulse: to pull off or tear away forcibly
Personification of nursery seedling 6-pack's tallest snapdragon
A contest entry
- Personify! by BellaD.
800 points, ended July 15, 2008, 12 entries
Gold trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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Magnificent! I thought you were a tomato plant. I was close. Snapdragon makes sense, though.
Great metaphor also of what God will do with us, if we let Him.
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Thank you! You saw eye to eye with me on this
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This is gorgeous, a personification that takes
a very human perspective. It too, reminds me
of a fable in which there is always a valuable
lesson to learn and this one speaks to me of
ego being humbled, and trust. Blue
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Wonderful! Beautifully written. Flows smoothly to the final, powerful conclusion. Thank you for entering.
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I think that you did a fantastic job! hard to imagine that it was a flower, a flower with attitude.
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