Monday, September 2, 2024

summer's end

from seed, you grew tall

orange cupcake flower

i wanted you to bloom forever

but summer's end is here


[pause]


spin me out of summer blues

as flowers turn deep sun-blood

slow decay by wind chill-  

dying/dyeing

ink, garden these verses  


[within me]



Zinnia, Orange Cupcake


Posted for dVerse Poets Pub- Quadrille #207 Poem Spin Cycle, hosted by De Jackson.  The chosen word is SPIN to be used in this 44 word count poem.  Thanks for your comments and visits.

17 comments:

  1. I love the vibrancy of those colors...

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  2. Oh, how I love those brackets, the packets of seeds evoked here, and "garden" as verb. Wonderful.

    de

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  3. a wistful end Grace - love the blue/dyeing link and the way the poem drew its rhythm to a slow stop

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  4. Loved the imagery and this is a beautiful line, "garden these verses " :)

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  5. Beautiful! The end of summer--and so wistful the dying of flowers and creativity. That flower is gorgeous!

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  6. Beautiful words for the end of summer.

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  7. Love your use of colors here, Grace.

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  8. I so feel the double meaning here (at least for myself) of the changing of seasons, and fewer seasons left. Like that beautiful flower, we want to bloom forever.

    And - the way you worked in how the writer's ability to plant something lasting with your last words - genius!

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  9. Today, I can feel the shift in weather as a cooler breeze moved into the area.

    spin me out of summer blues - beautiful use of spin...there is a sense of melancholy with the change in season. Truedessa

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  10. Luv the "spin me out"
    Besutiful quadrille.
    Happy you dropped by to read mine

    much♡lovr

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  11. Opening stanza so special, and befitting here: rhythm too, as it must be for this. A beautiful verse, found in a corner of a meadow.

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  12. Love the "dying/dyeing" lines and the idea of ink gardening the pages, Grace...

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  13. Oh, so beautiful. Good one Grace.
    Pat

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  14. You captured for me the feeling of the change, love the Zinnia imagery too, the perfect vehicle for your word painting.

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