STAYING POWER

an espalier is a gardener's framework for growing plants against, often against a protected wall, often fruit trees, the better to encourage their fruitfulness

You glide your hands beneath my shirt

This love of ours knows its way

I hold you by your slender waist

You pull me closer to your need

I am your walled espalier

You hug me tighter as you grow

I stay because its how love is

You feel its potency in me

I kiss your neck because I must

You stay your love upon my need

I feel your Nature growing strong

Because you know I'll never leave

That love has found its way in us

Now we are onefast in its truss

Author's Note

pic - wisteria at Kew Gdns

Reviews

[zainul]

The piece is wonderful.
I enjoyed the piece for the splendid write and amazing picture.
I saw such awesome wisteria in Nepal at a hotel from where The Himalayan could be viewed.
The stanza is stunning:
"I am your walled espalier
You hug me tighter as you grow
I stay because its how love is
You feel its potency in me"

[Dhaye]

Wow! I have also done this before...personifying an object of value. But this can be interpreted in a different way also, where the espalier is a metaphor of a lover. Love is that thing that makes the heart powerful...
Nice presentation. I really enjoy my every visit to your page for something new I learned again. (Thanks for the description given about an espalier.) =)

[R J Askew]

Thank you for your generous comment. Yes, it is a love verse. The espalier is a lover.

[Dhaye]

You're welcome. =)

[Shane Hogan Poetry]

I can feel the narrator speaking to a person, but more so reconfirming the idea of a person in their head. Nice poem.

[J. Alfred Prufrock]

ok, i'm going to read one more and then i am going to go take a cold shower and cool off. fine work.

[Ruth]

Beautiful!
The fertilising, as such, one needing the other and grows from that...
You know, I try not to analyse as such, just feel the words...that is the beauty of your pieces, they allow the reader to interpret in their own way, this is lovely x

[R J Askew]

I wish I cld feel more and stop analysing. Maybe the words get in the way of feeling.

[Ruth]

Perhaps.....terrible....lol

[R J Askew]

A poem with no words might work in novel ways!

[Ruth]

I reckon so...thinking now...

[R J Askew]

It might be tricky to do as spoken word piece .. I spose it cld be mimed

[Ruth]

Very true that...

[Tate Morgan]

we are truly helpless against the whiles of the opposite sex

[R J Askew]

Yep, we certainly are .. and a fine way to be :)))

[Tate Morgan]

I agree it is as natural as it is hopeless

[R J Askew]

But we love our fate .. what else can we do?

[Tate Morgan]

Oh we instinctively know we deserve it for past digressions

[R J Askew]

Ach, I missed out on the digressions.

[Tate Morgan]

lol you need to live a little more and risk something for fun

[R J Askew]

ain't that the truth!

[R J Askew]

Cheers Savannah .. good luck with your novel!

[Savannah Hudgens]

It has a nice beat and the metaphorical lines impressed me.

V