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by Glenn Currier

Effusion of lavender
your five delicate ovals
leap and slice my stride
clutch my gaze.
You are small
yet confident as a sunflowerÂ’s
arrogant brilliance
in a black sweltering field.

I had forgotten
the cool March morning
when she dug the soil
believing in your tiny potential.
The days she ignored
the screams in her knees
to water your courage
and nurture the small spark of wonder
germinating unseen
in that mysterious gathering of Earth.

With the wauling winds
and rains of spring
your insipient faith
shoots from the darkness
in splendorous green
startling the light.

How many days
did I pass you
in my busy oblivion
deaf to the silent strains
of your viridescent youth?

And now for your daring debut
a sudden flourish
your nubile flowering
and splendid nakedness
are a joyous anthem
to life.

06/18/2008

Posted on 06/19/2008
Copyright © 2024 Glenn Currier

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Michelle Angelini on 06/19/08 at 01:44 PM

You have a symphony of nature here. I'm not sure I'll ever think of a flower blooming quite in the same way. In many ways, your wife is the instrument here to a grand and glorious premiere, yet it's one both of you have found some measure of pleasure in - just in different ways.

Posted by Alison McKenzie on 06/19/08 at 02:01 PM

The feel of this work captures the wonder of it, and how we take it for granted sometimes. Gorgeous, Glenn!

Posted by Gabriel Ricard on 06/19/08 at 06:38 PM

Excellent.

Posted by Philip F De Pinto on 06/20/08 at 11:00 AM

there is such a Keatsian feel to this ode. it nurtures as it guides us into the beauty of the seeming miniscule occurrence which seem ever to escape our gazing, we being too focused on the grandiose to take much notice. I think all things should be razed to the ground which do not nurture and guide us as does this ode and lovingly so.

Posted by Charles E Minshall on 06/23/08 at 06:09 PM

Nature is a wonderous thing as is your poem of it....CharMin

Posted by Quentin S Clingerman on 07/20/08 at 10:14 PM

I'd call this and ode to lavendar. Beautifully expressed. The poem exudes the ever miarcle of seed to plant to flower and the marvelous changes of seasons.

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