Beyond the Bushes

Bu2
Bu2 Posts: 1,693
edited May 2007 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
Misty grays, there are so many
though not as many as misty greens

The garden paths, they make such tunnels
I choose the one that meanders most

So hard to see the sky
after a while
So many are the leaves

Now and then
I am able to gaze up at it, though

It is gray mixed with green mixed with purple

This mixture mixes well with the colors all round me
brings out the greens and the pinks and the blushes and the whites

Makes everything stand out by itself
makes everything look pure and real and perfect to one’s eyes

Without a camera lens to be seen
to witness the next scene

Big, fat, sloppy, floppy raindrops fall
where they can
amidst the canopies and bowers of ivy and flowers

Plopping thickly, making random torpedo hits
through the canopies and arbors and pretty things all around

The leaves overhead no longer give shelter
the cover and comfort is gone

Heavy winds, with the rain, and the hot humid summer
paint chaos that is pretty
only when seen
from afar

Up close, water tramples fragile flowers
forces new fresh mulch into canyons
giving no mercy to the carefully thought out
lovingly planned walkways
aside flowerbeds
that meander
like a path

to where

no one knows
Feels Good Inc.
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  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    thats a pritty nice lil stroll thru the bushes.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    beyond rather.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • Bu2
    Bu2 Posts: 1,693
    chadwick wrote:
    beyond rather.

    DAN Rather, too.

    As usual, Chads, I was trying to write a pretty poem about gardens and flowers.

    Instead, it somehow turned political (if you read between the, erm, "leaves", or, um, see the forest for the trees...something like that).
    Feels Good Inc.
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    Bu2, I like it! :)
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  • Bu2
    Bu2 Posts: 1,693
    Just Am. Very much.
    Feels Good Inc.
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    We gotta get beyond dem shrubs. ;)

    Well written, Bu!

    If I was at a poetry slam, would I have to shout "Buuuuuuuu - urns?" :D Could I not find an alternative way to hail you? Even "Twooooooooooo" would need an "-urns." From now on, you shall be Horatio! At least it sounds like "Hoooorayyyy".

    :D
  • kdpjam
    kdpjam Posts: 2,303
    very nice !
    lay down all thoughts; surrender to the void
    ~it is shining it is shining~
  • Bu2
    Bu2 Posts: 1,693
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    We gotta get beyond dem shrubs. ;)

    Well written, Bu!

    If I was at a poetry slam, would I have to shout "Buuuuuuuu - urns?" :D Could I not find an alternative way to hail you? Even "Twooooooooooo" would need an "-urns." From now on, you shall be Horatio! At least it sounds like "Hoooorayyyy".

    :D

    Horatio Hornblower.
    Feels Good Inc.
  • electronblue
    electronblue Posts: 3,503
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    "Forgive every being,
    the bad feelings 
    it's just me"


  • ChrisD
    ChrisD Posts: 48
    ghehe :D i like this one : Big, fat, sloppy, floppy raindrops fall
    "Ransom paid the Devil, he whispers pleasing words.
    Triumphant are the angels if they can get there first."

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