My friend Gerry is back to writing and shared his recent work with me. Would you visit his blog? Click on his name above. If you are local, you may recognize the landmarks.
Being housebound has its benefits. I cleaned the carpets and read three books in the past two weeks. I have cooked (and eaten) more than ever before.
Today I fiddled with poems. What do you think? Do you have a preference, a particular style? Next week we are expecting temperatures around 80 degrees. I will be sitting in the sun, not under an apple tree!
Spring Palette
Splash the barren earth with daffodils,
golden forsythia o'er the hills.
Being housebound has its benefits. I cleaned the carpets and read three books in the past two weeks. I have cooked (and eaten) more than ever before.
Today I fiddled with poems. What do you think? Do you have a preference, a particular style? Next week we are expecting temperatures around 80 degrees. I will be sitting in the sun, not under an apple tree!
Spring Palette
Splash the barren earth with daffodils,
golden forsythia o'er the hills.
Smudge hedgerows purple, dark and light,
tint azalea blossoms raspberry bright.
tint azalea blossoms raspberry bright.
Rouge ruby red on pansy cheeks,
daub dainty smiles that glow for weeks.
daub dainty smiles that glow for weeks.
Spread winter’s lawn with sage and jade.
Paint spring on every branch, and blade.
Housebound Locked Down
In a crook of the rippled lake
still water cradles autumn’s Paint spring on every branch, and blade.
Housebound Locked Down
In a crook of the rippled lake
discarded foliage, usurped
by algae propagating
in sunshine golden as the finch
that flew its nest, confused
by the absence of visitors
missing out on nature's best.
Suburban Orchard
The newly arrived immigrant
planted a dozen apple trees alright
there on his small front lawn,
and painted the trunks stark white.
by algae propagating
in sunshine golden as the finch
that flew its nest, confused
by the absence of visitors
missing out on nature's best.
Suburban Orchard
The newly arrived immigrant
planted a dozen apple trees alright
there on his small front lawn,
and painted the trunks stark white.
Flowering orchard, twelve towering trees,
uniformed sailors taking orders from the breeze.
Blossoms drifting, swirling, floating down
from the best-dressed apple trees in town.
Who am I to say a spread of sweet Williams
or daffodils would be more apropos?
This man from "over there" probably doesn't know,
a hedge of roses in all their glory would certainly delight.
But who am I to say HIS front yard is wrong
and everyone else is right?
Neighbors mow their grass and whack away their weeds.
While we all manicure our lawns, he tends his apple trees.
P.S.
This orchard is a few blocks from our home on a main street.
One year we were taking a drive and came upon an entire front lawn of pink flowers,
thousands of them.
What is the darndest thing you've seen on a front lawn?
7 comments:
Linda--I've seen a toilet in a front yard--and it was repurposed as a flower pot.
I've watched too much TV, along with eating too much. Something has to stop!
I like all of these poems, but I think I like the last the best because it tells a story. I think an old style footed bathtub made into a flower bed is probably the oddest thing I've seen in a front yard.
Love your poetry!! I have 3 more apple trees, so I will still get fruit. I just don't like that blank spot! I wish the weather would cooperate with the quarantine! I have plenty to do outside and I am so tired of these four walls!
WooHoo! The sun just popped out as I read this! I hope you have your track shoes on, to sprint out an enjoy it.
I love them all three.
Your poems touch relevant topics : Spring with its flowers, Lockdown with its social isolation and distancing, Immigration with the immigrant as a constructive human being.
The darnedest thing I ever saw on a lawn? WAYYYYY too many fake pink flamingos. Oh heavens, they are NOTHING I'd want on my lawn. But they were, well, very pink and perky. ha haha
well, I hope you and your family will one day benefit from the orchard by getting some nice apples, Linda.
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