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Gold cherry

By Di_Hard

Sat, 28 Mar 2020
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22 comments
 

 

Rain pulses on a tarmac eel

grey muscles sleeking down to town.

 

Dock leaves’ green fanfares burst from dark

mud and trees seethe with finches’ cheeps,

their flicker of bright wings. Blackbirds

and robins on stark branches pour

liquid sound through falling water.

 

Bright impatient golden eye peeps

from dandelion's calyx lid

while daisy's seeming frail, pale head,

light hearted, shakes off each chill drop.

 

As though the cement of order

damming change, breaks under pressure,

floods expectations, re-levels

and fills pockets with sky, chance comes

to rearrange, grow other ways.

 

Let past injustice become mulch -

greed's rules making kindness weak, turn

rotten experience, learned from

by memory's roots deep and strong,

supporting our reach for fairness -

joined, we'll enjoy the Future. Hope!

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Comments

Submitted by onemorething on

Wonderful Di, I love how this ripples and rumbles to your hope at the end. Love the fanfares of dock leaves from dark mud, love all of it. :) 

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou  very much Rachel! Am so glad you liked itp[--------------------------]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]555555555555555 - message from Tina, cat

 

Submitted by onemorething on

Please let Tina know that I take her point completely. :)

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Will do :0)

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Life breaks through the tarmac:

grim rush of life self-centred can break, and better things emerge, be wakened to,  when trouble make all stop!

Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou for your thoughtful comment Rhiannon. I hope better things emmerge, yes. Hope you /////////////////////////////////////////////////////are well. Tina is helping :0)

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

I can tell a lot of thought has gone into this poem Di. I like how you end on a hopeful note, that moving in another direction might be the answer, leaving behind selfishness and welcoming kindness. We have to go through the dark to reach the light.

Your poem speaks of so much enlighment.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou Jenny for your very kind comment! That is one of the things I am trying to learn from your poems!

I hope you are getting better and better, and have seen the sunshine today

 

Submitted by Jane Hyphen on

I love the idea of the empty road, being like an eel, is it sloping? And the way you've animated your surroundings in the absence of human life. Suddenly the nature around us had greater significance because it carries on, flourishes, it's so reassuring when everything else isn't. The cement, man-made, holding back change, of course something was going to give. Nature has its own flow and nothing can stop it. Great poem Di xx

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Jane, it is great to hear from you, thankyou for your brilliant comment, VERY  sloping, yes :0) I think a glacier had a fridge clearout as it came by here and left behind lots of small hills :0)

 

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

I've come back to re-read this (and I think I will be back again too) - the way in which this will make us re-examine our lives - the 'cement of order'  - wonderful imagery. I hope you're ok on your island Di. Do you have cases there yet?

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou very much Insert :0) There must be something good to come out of this, something to hope for! There are 2 cases according to a comment on a post on local facebook. I hope you and your family and friends are well

 

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Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou SO MUCH!!!

 

Submitted by agnosticnun on

This is excellent, and very apropos.

Kristi

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou very much Kristi. Hope you are well

 

Submitted by airyfairy on

Wonderful poem, Di, and your ending is so uplifting.  The tarmac eel is a brilliant image.  I shall think of that whenever I'm next walking along the main road into town.

I'm loving Tina's messages.  Glad my mog isn't the only one who likes to put paw to keyboard!  

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou so much Airy! Say Hi to Little Cat from me :0) Tina's latest thing is to put the calculator bit on 20 times without me noticing, so nothing else works and I don't know why :0) I don't know HOW she manages this as I have to click on the calculator symbol if I want it...

 

Submitted by YaseminB on

This is very uplifting. beautiful.

Yasemin Balandi

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou so much Yasemin for taking the time to read and leave your lovely comment, I really appreciate it!

 

Submitted by Parson Thru on

A very hopeful piece, Di. Got much more at the second reading. A lot going on beneath the soil. Like the bindweed roots I've just been digging up.

Parson Thru

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou :0) It seems so long ago!