Daily Archives: July 7, 2012

When I am Dead

07 Saturday Jul 2012

Posted by in Buddhism, Deep Stuff!, Longing & Waiting, Love, Poetry

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Graveyard [1]

 

 

 

 

Sitting in the gardens,

admiring flower beds,

will you still remember me,

when I am long dead?

 

Reflections on my past life,

no longer hurt my heart,

for they are now just stories,

from which I am apart.

 

Mental chatter ceases,

calm imbues my soul,

wisdom and compassion,

start to make me whole.

 

Although I’m reminiscing,

of all that never was,

I still miss you dearly,

no reason just – because…

 

© When I am Dead 2012

By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

Graveyard [1] (Photo credit: Simon Cocks)

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Flowers

07 Saturday Jul 2012

Posted by in Daily life, Poetry

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Sweet William.

Sweet William. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sensuous Sweet William,

swaying slowly and with ease,

sickly scent suffuses,

cloying at the breeze.

 

Floral, fragrant, Freesias,

a heady, heavenly perfume,

flimsy, fickle, finicky,

punctuates juvenile June.

 

Lilly or the Valley,

valiant, staunch, verbose,

remembrance and reminisce,

of fallen family close.

 

Romantic, rotund, Roses,

their drama does delight,

pervading, perfumes profligate,

part, prophetic poets’ heart.

 

Renoir's painting of cabbage roses, Roses in a...

Renoir’s painting of cabbage roses, Roses in a vase (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

© Flowers 2012

By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm