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Showing posts with label wall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wall. Show all posts

9/9/12

Sunflowers Basking in Light

Bedding against the granite wall...


In defiance of the gravelly ground
crumbs of weathered granite wall,
among quarrelsome arable terra firma
for seeds, roots and sowing...
determined sunflowers nourish,
basking efflorescence in light.

In courage among former rock-bound
dregs of paltry earthen landfall,
toiled agreeably brushing desert delta
mesh arid, rocky to growing...
destined inflorescence flourish,
upward thrusting to height.

6/9/12

Sticks and Stones

Underneath are buried names that didn't hurt me...


Tis not true that names do not at first hurt,
hurled like stones they attempt to hit the soul
like sticks striking to break psyche bones.

Tis the brave soul that faces real truth,
that those who fling utterances of dung
are best disregarded, since their souls...

Are mere dried sticks useful only as firewood.