Counting Demented Wildflowers

Counting Demented Wildflowers

 

 

 

eccentric daises 

petal mending wisdom

 

she loves me not

but that's inconsequential

when Black Eyed Susan

lives next door

 

and new gardens are tilled

in crisp October moonlight

lips grasp stems of intimacy

 

and maniac affections

dig those beams

out from the grounded complacency

 

and wild nights

dance in a starlit

ballroom,

 

a marathon of holding

truths against our hearts

moving to a different kind of beat.

 

 

erin-cilberto

9/1/18

Reviews

[angel]

This was so beautiful and evocative, Erin. There is a field across the road from me, full of daisies, black-eyed Susans, and Queen Anne's Lace. I used to walk there, but since it is not wheelchair accessible, I can only look at it, now.
Your words took me back into that meadow I love.
I love that you're an English teacher.
My own professor from Greenfield Community College in Greenfield, Massachusetts, turned me on to this site. His name is Saul Greenblatt; I haven't seen him here lately, though.
I majored in English and Creative Writing (Wilson Roberts, professor), also took Public Speaking.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for sharing, angel....English is a good major...i spent years not being able to use the degree until i finally got to start teaching, but it is almost like having English, philosophy, psychology all rolled into one.
appreciate your comments...
j.

[Michael Oliver]

As the truth sayer says at one point in David Lynch's Dune - Get out of mind -

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, Michael.
j.

[AYVID N]

and new gardens are tilled
in crisp October moonlight
lips grasp stems of intimacy

No words to express my delight here, Mr. Jacob!

Life is too short and our hearts too crippled to be cognisant of certain heavy realities and truths, day in and out. The different kind of beat then is a life saver! A stroll down the wilderness of passion, even that which is disconnected from love, can be very restorative, very healing!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your words, DIVYA...
j.

[AYVID N]

It’s a pleasure sir!