Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Found-Poem: new flowers (Normasource)

Norma has had the flu! But she got out today and inspected her garden. She sent photos from her phone and a message --a message typical of a directness I can seldom approach in poetry. I reproduce it intact:

"new flowers:

I raked leaves over the bulbs, then the bulbs came up and look how they pushed the leaves up with them."

12 comments:

  1. It is amazing how shoots start looking for sun and push any thing that is in their way, while bulbs don't mind a bed of raked leaves or even crushed up leaves. Nature is self sufficient eh?

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    1. Yes, well-put, nature is self-sufficient. Good thing too!

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  2. Life hoisting death over its shoulders. I think I just heard green laughter.

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  3. Norma's photo does catch a seasonal game of leap-frog. On your suggestion I'll listen for the merriment of elementals.

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  4. This is a fascinating picture. Seeing the shoots from the flower bulbs pushing up at the dead leaves is poetic.

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    1. Indeed! There is a rhythm and meter to the seasons measured in the smallest things.

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  5. Oh, that is just awesome...aww, looks like springtime.

    On that note, it's snowing here. Again. :(

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    1. Thank you Michelle! But is there not some hope of trucking Kentucky snow to California? We are having a drought and are very worried about our wine!

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  6. Hello Geo!:) Nature is sooo incredible. I like what I see, and what I have read, so am now following this blog, will be back to check on the others very soon.

    ps. Loved the story about your great uncle Willie!:)))

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  7. It is only us humans that get bogged down by things, mostly imaginary. Nature, on the other hand, is nature...

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    1. True KK. Nature is the language of the universe, I am trying to learn it.

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