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[aid] => mick
[title] => As the Bloom Dies
[time] => 2013-02-08 22:12:39
[hometext] => I haven't written anything in a very, very long time. It is far from perfect, but i'm thankful to write something!
[bodytext] => In the moment of visualization, The most beautiful of colors enticingly unfold, And enrapture even the hardest of those tried. Our minds tell us that we see this wonder, As we see all things. Truth be told, we are feeling the freshness, Of a beginning that slowly tantalizes our soul. But quickly our attention and fascination, Follows directions that yield non distinctive weeds, And sprouts and all manner of things, And, the delicacy of a miracle seems less so. As I sit here, in this garden, alas alone, I gaze at a bloom that I feel must be sleeping, Latent with dew, darkened in the shadows, This delicate orchid, lost in the evanescence. Of a plant that could have been, lovely, Revered, nurtured and warmed by the human hand, Now is closed, as closed as words, that we never say, Disguised before my very eyes, Was almost a flower, as the Bloom slowly dies… [comments] => 2 [counter] => 160 [topic] => 27 [informant] => kye [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => NaturePoetry )
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