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.
I love the vibrancy of those colors...
ReplyDeleteOh, how I love those brackets, the packets of seeds evoked here, and "garden" as verb. Wonderful.
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a wistful end Grace - love the blue/dyeing link and the way the poem drew its rhythm to a slow stop
ReplyDeleteThis is so graceful and lovely! Bravo!
ReplyDeleteLoved the imagery and this is a beautiful line, "garden these verses " :)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! The end of summer--and so wistful the dying of flowers and creativity. That flower is gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful words for the end of summer.
ReplyDeleteLove your use of colors here, Grace.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteAnd - the way you worked in how the writer's ability to plant something lasting with your last words - genius!
Today, I can feel the shift in weather as a cooler breeze moved into the area.
ReplyDeletespin me out of summer blues - beautiful use of spin...there is a sense of melancholy with the change in season. Truedessa
What beautiful flowers.🥰
ReplyDeleteLuv the "spin me out"
ReplyDeleteBesutiful quadrille.
Happy you dropped by to read mine
much♡lovr
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.
ReplyDeleteA crescendo of summer. <3
ReplyDeleteBeautiful journey through the flower's life.
ReplyDeleteLove the "dying/dyeing" lines and the idea of ink gardening the pages, Grace...
ReplyDeleteOh, so beautiful. Good one Grace.
ReplyDeletePat
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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