Tuesday, October 2, 2012

A Flower Of The Fields Comments

Rating: 5.0

Bee-Bitten in the orchard hung
The peach; or, fallen in the weeds,
Lay rotting, where still sucked and sung
The gray bee, boring to its seed's
Pink pulp and honey blackly stung.
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Madison Julius Cawein
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* Sunprincess * 22 January 2016

.............imagery penned so perfectly.. .was like seeing a painting of the orchard and the heat of the summer's day becomes even more intense when ★ I rested, with one hesitant hand Upon the gate. The lonesome day, Droning with insects, made the land One dry stagnation. Soaked with hay And scents of weeds the hot wind fanned. I breathed the sultry scents, my eyes Parched as my lips. And yet I felt My limbs were ice. As one who flies To some wild woe. How sleepy smelt The hay-sweet heat that soaked the skies! Noon nodded; dreamier, lonesomer For one long, plaintive, forest-side Bird-quaver. And I knew me near Some heartbreak anguish... She had died. I felt it, and no need to hear

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Brian Jani 28 April 2014

I like this poem, its interesting

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