I'm elusive and strange...
showers splash over me as I
take on an ever changing form,
my many shades of pink alter as
sunlight reflects on my petals,
a prick of my thorny limbs
can pierce the skin...behold
such beauty and pain together,
my one bud once so compact it
stands so tall and proud...
now spreads out like mountains
across a fresh seeded valley,
I open wide my petals to the
great ever changing vastness of
space...no more the sky to see
only the earth...my many winged
shapes weaken cut off from my core,
dissolving to the soil once more...
again to nourish and sustain my
roots...the Land that is mine.
Comments
Highhat | July 14, 2011 - 15:47
This is very beautiful Jenny.
;)Pia
skinner_jennifer | July 14, 2011 - 18:48
Thankyou so much for reading Pia,
I'm glad you liked it.
Your comments are always appreciated.
Jenny.
fatboy74 | July 14, 2011 - 22:23
Really enjoying this new phase in your writing Jenny - you're love of nature comes across beautifully. :-)
maisie | July 14, 2011 - 23:21
I admire the way you bring it in and out - the expression of space within the words is fantastic :)
skinner_jennifer | July 15, 2011 - 09:03
Thankyou for reading FB, I'm glad you enjoyed this
piece, kind of you to let me know.
Jenny.
skinner_jennifer | July 15, 2011 - 09:06
Hi maisie,
I really appreciate what you have said, thankyou
for reading.
Jenny.
ScoZen | July 15, 2011 - 13:42
I can visualise a St Ives scene here, a soft water colour.
Nice one.
skinner_jennifer | July 15, 2011 - 14:27
Hi there ScoZen,
this was a poem I wrote, about a rose bush in my
back garden, it sits right outside my kitchen
window. It's lost a lot of petals, but there are
loads of new buds appearing, not yet opened. I do
love roses and especially the fragrant ones. The
bush in my garden is over thirty years old, I only
know this, because my neighbour told me.
Anyway I'm glad I could conjure up a scene for you.
Thankyou for reading and letting me know your thoughts, always appreciated.
Jenny.
Cavalcaderl | July 15, 2011 - 15:47
new skinner_jennifer
Definitely a little gem and corker!
Just love it and can picture it.
And be able to admire the beauty of all.
Ah! "For the beauty of the earth"
'Father unto the we praise, this our sacrifice of praise.' What a beautiful poem, well exploited in
magical colours and phrases. Thoroughly enjoyed.
Thirty years, that's getting, hope for me yet!
"I'm just watching flowers in the rain". Great
explain like you have the touch you have. Quite right the land is our's. some being ruined every day.
Paper's stating Romance of 'Mills and Boone's books,misleading to married real life! Course we all
must day dream.
Have a super day.
julie xx
skinner_jennifer | July 15, 2011 - 16:30
Dear julie,
thankyou for your wonderful comment, it makes my day
to know that you too appreciate the wonders of
nature. It's amazing if you look deeply enough at
flowers, how much beauty there actually is.
Anyway julie, thankyou again for reading and that
wonderful comment.
Jenny.