16 April 2024

How My Garden Grows

 

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A poem flowers in my garden,
spreading pollen and scent
to anyone who lingers. 
 
It may lead to strata beneath
or beyond reality, but
its words—its whorls of petals—
 
take us to where we want to go,
to where we must go
given this world and time.



For my prompt "What is it about poetry?" at What's Going On?


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© 2024 Susan L. Chast


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13 comments:

  1. Sumana Roy4/17/2024 6:47 AM

    A poem is as delicate as a tender flower as well as a hard reality. All inclusive. Its words " take us to where we want to go, / to where we must go / given this world and time." So wonderfully expressed.

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  2. Mary4/17/2024 8:40 AM

    May everyone's gardens be populated with many flowers--each of them being a poem. Your poem expresses your thoughts beautifully.

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  3. Rajani4/17/2024 11:05 AM

    to where we must go
    given this world and time. - it seems like we can only go there with poetry... it gives wings...albeit small, ineffective ones...but soar we can and must!!!

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  4. Sherry Blue Sky4/17/2024 11:15 AM

    So lovely - a poem as a flower. Which also sends seed-thoughts out into the world to the gardens of othgers. Beautiful, Susan.

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  5. Kim M. Russell4/17/2024 11:26 AM

    What a lovely idea, Susan, a poetry garden! I love that it can ‘take us to where we want to go, to where we must go given this world and time'.

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  6. alan17044/17/2024 11:57 AM

    I agree - a poem is a garden - where we experience the wonder and beauty of life. Well done.

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  7. Anonymous4/17/2024 12:44 PM

    Love your poem as a fragrant garden....Beautiful poem !....Rall

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  8. Anonymous4/17/2024 3:02 PM

    A beautiful flowering poem - nature is full of poems ~ Truedessa

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  9. Fireblossom4/17/2024 7:33 PM

    Ahhhhh, that's lovely how you referenced Andrew Marvell in your closing--it made me smile big. But you are never coy, and have a marvelous way of expressing just about anything you put to paper, including this lovely poem.

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  10. Brother Ollie4/18/2024 7:29 PM

    Excellent - some of my more recent (unpublished notebook) poems have been inspired by flowers.

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  11. Jennifer Wagner4/19/2024 5:12 PM

    I inhaled deeply and enjoyed the scent of your poem. Beautiful, Susan.

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  12. Dora4/21/2024 3:26 PM

    As gorgeous as a rose, Susan, perfumed and with its pollen ripe for the taking in other minds and hearts.

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  13. Anonymous4/23/2024 10:04 AM

    Such a wonderful poem!! Thank you. annell

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