SO WE WERE SHARING AN APARTMENT NEAR WASHINGTON SQUARE
AND NEXT DOOR WAS A VAST FLOOR OF DIRT
MY LOVER WHISPERED WITH A BREEZE "I WILL PLANT MY SEEDLINGS RIGHT HERE"
SHE DECIDED TO SELL HER AS BUDS OF COLORS GALORE
AND SUDDENLY PEOPLE BEGAN BUYING MORE AND MORE
IF A FLOWER WAS WILTED SHE KNEW IT'S NEED
JUST HOW TO WATER, JUST HOW TO FEED
AND SURE ENOUGH PEOPLE BEGAN COMING JUST TO BUY HER GARDEN'S DELIGHT
THEY ALL SAW IT AS BEAUTIFUL AND THEY WERE RIGHT
SHE REVELLED IN EVERY FLOWER SHE EVER HEALED
THEN THE GOD-DAMNED GARDEN GREW SO MUCH WE HAD TO RENT US A FIELD
EVENTUALLY SHE GREW BORED OF BEING RICH
SO SHE SET AFIRE THAT FIELD, THE b*tch
NO MORE BLOSSOMS, NO BUDS NO EMERALD GREEN LEAVES
BUT THIS IS A STORY ONLY A FOOL BELIEVES
IT WAS ALL METAPHORICAL AND SOME MAY HAVE KNOWN
EACH CUSTMER WAS ANOTHER FLOWER SHE'D GROWN
AND THE GARDEN WAS WORTH AS MUCH AS PURE GOLD
THAT GARDEN WAS THE CORNER OF BROADWAY AND TENTH WHEREUPON SHE SOLD (C) 2011....~free cee!~ please ladies, too many requests to come from anywhere just to meet the great looking genius (sarcasm?)i am it clogs my inbox, so if you can restrain yourself, if you're good looking and over fifty you'll have your chance with me! thanking you in advance for your cooperation in this matter,I remain......STONED AND SMILING! ~free!~
I have read and come back twice more, I feel vibes of an angry man? so did not know if I should comment or not. Well here goes loved 1, 2 and 3 times of reading but your commentry on the end was a dandelion in a rose of a write. Don't kill the mesenger who is my thought.
Maybe smoking weed contributed a lot to creating this beauty of a poem, the beauty of creation you don't even know, but you obstinately refuse to admit there are other beauties of not your making, the beauties which come with every broken heart, not precisely yours, cause there are broken hearts other than yours that need rendering on paper, so that others could hear. Ever thought of listening to them, to others wishing to tell you and me, and us how lonely they feel deep inside? Do you feel their excruciating pain? Do you read what they write for your and my, and others' pleasure? And does a form matter in which this outcry of despair or joy finds its expression? We all here are masters of art of poetry, cause what matters is others feeling the same and crying the same, asking the same questions. They don't need instructions in writing poetry, just listen to the way they speak, to what they say, cause they speak the same, feel the same, and are often disheartened and destitute the same, and you are one of us, rank and file, no better or worse, running in your worn shoes in search for that elusive something called happiness or whatever you are looking for.
caroljoyceManchester, Greater Manchester, England UKFeb 25, 2011
Had to comment on the beauty of Marika's comment. Interesting read, sir. Well, I am too old really, as I am 80 next birthday, but I wish do wish you luck in your quest for love and your poetry. Weed causes paranoia and messes you up, you would be happier without it. Kind wishes, CJ
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Well here goes loved 1, 2 and 3 times of reading but your commentry on the end was a dandelion in a rose of a write.
Don't kill the mesenger who is my thought.
Interesting read, sir.
Well, I am too old really, as I am 80 next birthday, but I wish do wish you luck in your quest for love and your poetry.
Weed causes paranoia and messes you up, you would be happier without it. Kind wishes,
CJ