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Array ( [sid] => 146135 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Culture Flowers [time] => 2008-11-05 21:31:51 [hometext] => [bodytext] => We’re all lashed
to Cultural Helms
besodden
ingrained eyes
narrowed to squinty plane
seeing;
not seeing
only mine;
and not mine
blind.

Culture is the Gardener's Death
who’s kind to only one flower;
other's bloom in the garden darkened
by blindness over-powered.

Strain we may
against the mast
yet we cultivate only our own gardens
time and our past
cause other flowers
to bloom and wither
before our very countenance.

Tempted we may be
by soul's desire
to look beyond the garden walls:
But few cannot,
but lift the spade
and plow the same furrows,
which etch our brow
contain our lives
until our death
we having known
only one garden flower:
grown beautifully
in straight
and narrow furrows.

A few sometimes
smell other blooms
thereby open up
to that genius
which is
simply
being willing
to sip and know
Not Like We-Ness. [comments] => 2 [counter] => 145 [topic] => 43 [informant] => lnnie [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => oops )

Culture Flowers

Contributed by lnnie on Wednesday, 5th November 2008 @ 09:31:51 PM in AEST
Topic: oops

We’re all lashed
to Cultural Helms
besodden
ingrained eyes
narrowed to squinty plane
seeing;
not seeing
only mine;
and not mine
blind.

Culture is the Gardener's Death
who’s kind to only one flower;
other's bloom in the garden darkened
by blindness over-powered.

Strain we may
against the mast
yet we cultivate only our own gardens
time and our past
cause other flowers
to bloom and wither
before our very countenance.

Tempted we may be
by soul's desire
to look beyond the garden walls:
But few cannot,
but lift the spade
and plow the same furrows,
which etch our brow
contain our lives
until our death
we having known
only one garden flower:
grown beautifully
in straight
and narrow furrows.

A few sometimes
smell other blooms
thereby open up
to that genius
which is
simply
being willing
to sip and know
Not Like We-Ness.

Copyright Â© lnnie ... [ 2008-11-05 21:31:51]
(Date/Time posted on site)

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Re: Culture Flowers (User Rating: 1 )
by kihr on Friday, 1st February 2013 @ 11:57:50 AM AEST
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I think it was a good subject for writing and a good analogy to the problem with people sticking only to their own culture and ignoring other cultures that may enrich their lives. I think that a better formatting perhaps would make it easier to read, the first group of words (sorry not an english major) was rather choppy feeling. Maybe that was your intention to make you really read the words individually but I am unsure. Keep writing, people often ignore the culture boundaries and feel everyone outside of their own is wrong.

Kihr

Re: Culture Flowers (User Rating: 1 )
by karu on Sunday, 17th March 2013 @ 03:52:55 AM AEST
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POEM IS BEAUTIFUL LIKE FLOWER

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