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An inviting garden
by Julie Adams
looks like the grass is greener over there
though all this is new to me, the peeking
over someone else's fence,
checking out your garden, the view
so appealing, unexplored and inviting
perhaps that's why I stare
distracted by possibilities, I envision myself
amongst your flowers, your lawn, your bushes
I see myself reading in your grass like Lolita,
teasing with my little sundress
even the sprinklers cannot cool these thighs
wet cotton clings to my curves
your garden has me dripping, wondering,
hazy all the live long day
07/06/2008 Posted on 07/06/2008
Copyright © 2024 Julie Adams
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Joe Cramer on 07/06/08 at 03:19 PM Jewels... I love this! |
| Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 07/07/08 at 01:22 AM I love it! Whether real or metaphorical, this garden is a must see! Well done. |
| Posted by Philip F De Pinto on 07/10/08 at 11:39 AM although love is a word bandied about like liver pills these days, still I love this poem in a deeper sense and in that same sense, reading a poem is in essence peeking into someone else's green pasture in which we pine to be part, apart from our own and a most unconventional place to sate our deeper curiosities. |
| Posted by Michelle Angelini on 07/11/08 at 05:39 PM Jewels, your words take the old cliche and make it unique. You've added a new twist to it, just a bit of sensuality to make it mysterious. Yet, the sensuality opens the mind to such inventive imagination. |
| Posted by Glenn Currier on 07/16/08 at 06:08 PM Your sense-uous poem captures the layers of life and meaning that are right over the fence if we but take the time stop and look. Wewh! What a waft of warm summer wind you blow our way. |
| Posted by Charles E Minshall on 07/17/08 at 05:25 AM Thanks for posting this Jewels good reading...CharMin |
| Posted by Ken Harnisch on 07/19/08 at 05:20 AM mmm, sensual..and gives me new reason to keep my garden watered...eye-opening and provocative enough to keep me coming back to this gem more than once, Jewels! |
| Posted by Jared Fladeland on 07/23/08 at 01:11 PM I've been reading up on gnostic christianity of late, and this reminds me of something one of the gnostic gospels said, "Paradise is the womb, and Eden is the placenta".... I'm not sure how that all works, but it's interesting. |
| Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 07/23/08 at 04:21 PM Metaphorically sensual and playful. Oh the gardens around me that I'd love to explore. :) |
| Posted by Meghan Helmich on 12/11/08 at 04:29 PM the lolita image is splendid |
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