Only the Lonely
By Bee
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Brave lion -
with a red and yellow mane
on fire,
you peer
through open windows
of my groundless house.
Shy away
from darkness, Flower,
shadows sadden us.
Sun wakes you;
makes you turn
and pose the day away -
worships you
and bathes with warmth,
your hopeful face
that raises skyward
like a tree drawn by a child
who colours life
ablaze against the blue.
A lonely child with paint
and coloured chalks
instead of gardens,
attempts to scribble
out the darkness -
where shadows sadden us.
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Do sunflowers droop in the
Do sunflowers droop in the dark? I suppose the 'groundless' house is because the flower is so tall peeping in, there is no sense of its coming from the ground? The linking of shadows to sadnesses is poignant. Sunflowers and sunshine both cheering. Rhiannon
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Beautiful description...
Beautiful description... moving...
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Nature becomes so clear in
Nature becomes so clear in this poem Bee, it was like you were relating a child's drawing that is bright and colourful, shutting out the shadows...as you describe at the end, that's how I percieved it anyway.
A vivid and striking...yet poingnant read of coming out of lonliness.
Jenny. x
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back to basics shadows and
back to basics shadows and light brings the world to the fore.
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Don't know about sunflowers,
Don't know about sunflowers, Bee, but you have certainly got an orchard of cherries and no one deserves them more.
Lovely wistful poem. Not enough of a poet to understand why. Probably it's the loneliness theme. Don't know.
Moya x
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Hi Bee
Hi Bee
Beautfully and cleverly done, as all your work is. I love sunflowers, and always feel cheered when I see them.
Jean
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The Sunflowers was my
The Sunflower was my daughter's favourite flower...and this beautiful poem, is up there amongst the favourites of the many favourites I have of yours. That last stanza is superlative. For me, 'Poetry should not mean, but, simply, be'.
Tina
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