Thursday, February 27, 2014

Knot, Another Rose Bush Comments

Rating: 3.2

My jade plant has long since lost
the red tips at the end of her leaves.
She no longer tries to resemble rose petals.
Instead, jade holds her succulent head high
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Nika McGuin
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Daniel Brick 02 May 2014

This is a wonderful poem of self-discovery. It shows the actual progress almost moment to moment to the realization THIS IS ME! NOT THAT OTHER IMAGE I WAS IMITATING! I like the way the jade plant frames your self-discovery, because it make the REALYOU who is fully present at the end of the poem as natural and inevitable as the plant. And at the very end we get a glimmer of the majestic world of KUSH, which lives on in you.

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James Mclain 27 February 2014

Better to know in youth the power of truth. The journey's to long I chased the illusion of song. School and the hearth, soft the heart. Please be appeased there I dwell....iip

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