Category: poetry

  • Poetry Month 2010 #17

    ROSEMARY

    The grand dame of the garden
    once overlooked the lavenders,
    sweet scented and clarifying,
    and the roses,
    sweeter still and delicate,
    and the asparagus with filmy fronds and red berries.
    The grand dame
    with bright blue blossoms adorning aromatic foliage
    has gone ahead,
    woody trunk and barren stems
    lie in repose among the weeds
    that in the winter
    hid her passing.

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