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Brother
elaine67
7/24/2008 5:10 pm

Last Read:
7/28/2008 6:48 am

(reprinted upon request for you Leeessa Beeesa)

*Brother*

Your garden was
remarkable
and free from pests
everyone said
I ate
the artichoke paste
and even then
the teen-aged texture
of your hand
forged my taste.

We waited
for our mother,
yield-spread
in graceless feast
it was legend made
then granted,
waved on the spoon-end
of an artichoke.

There was no assurance
from year to year
who knows
which day
the rabbits and deer
overtook the garden
whole seasons
spent unspoken
the planting remains
entangled and seeding.

Later,
wrapped
in my winter smile,
and in the late-ringing distance,
you spoke in tones
of crackled sun-split corn
and acorn squash
left in hardened lumps
of plunder
for the deer.

Peace .. elaine67
bellezia
20747 posts 

7/24/2008 6:29 pm



(¯`v´¯)
`*.¸.*´
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(¸.•´ (¸.•´ .•´ ¸¸.•¨¯`•
smile and be happy always

midnight_daisy
1854 posts 

7/24/2008 6:52 pm

Us newer bloggers appreciate the reposting, for sure.

Or, well. When it's as lovely as this we do.

Cheers!

sens_4_always
969 posts 

7/24/2008 8:47 pm

Ummm. I wanna eat

something about artichokes made me hungry...

<<wanders off to kitchen...

Sensy

between the stars,
beyond the planet mars,
there Sens will be

yngathrtguy
3930 posts 

7/25/2008 12:16 am



If you can't convince them, confuse them!

HappyMozart
225 posts 

7/25/2008 6:56 pm

Moving poem. I like it.

Hm

flamekeeper
3021 posts 

7/26/2008 6:38 am

This made my mind flash with pictures.
Thank you for reposting.
I especially liked the ending stanza.

elaine67
6205 posts 

7/26/2008 8:34 am

Hiya!

Peace .. elaine67

elaine67
6205 posts 

7/26/2008 8:35 am

    Quoting midnight_daisy:
    Us newer bloggers appreciate the reposting, for sure.

    Or, well. When it's as lovely as this we do.
Thank you...it's an old one that I re-worked.

Still not too fond of it, though. The cadence is off
or something.

Peace .. elaine67

elaine67
6205 posts 

7/26/2008 8:36 am

    Quoting sens_4_always:
    Ummm. I wanna eat

    something about artichokes made me hungry...

    <
    Sensy
I do believe it was the one and only time
I actually enjoyed an artichoke.

Off to find the chips

Peace .. elaine67

elaine67
6205 posts 

7/26/2008 8:36 am

Hey now.

Peace .. elaine67

elaine67
6205 posts 

7/26/2008 8:37 am

I was going to make a joke about not being able to catch it...but, er, I'll take the compliment instead

Thank you - glad you liked it.

Peace .. elaine67

elaine67
6205 posts 

7/26/2008 8:38 am

    Quoting flamekeeper:
    This made my mind flash with pictures.
    Thank you for reposting.
    I especially liked the ending stanza.
Me too. I think it's my favorite.

Are you feeling better?

Peace .. elaine67

beta34
8873 posts

7/26/2008 2:30 pm

those bad rabbits who take control of our gardens should be banned from the face of our lives

supaar2
3344 posts 

7/27/2008 8:42 am

Mary, I watch your ingenuity growing. Great one

elaine67
6205 posts 

7/27/2008 9:58 am

    Quoting beta34:
    those bad rabbits who take control of our gardens should be banned from the face of our lives
We once had a pet rabbit named Eva when I was growing up.

It ate catfood and lived in our garage in a cage.

Peace .. elaine67

elaine67
6205 posts 

7/27/2008 9:59 am

    Quoting supaar2:
    Mary, I watch your ingenuity growing. Great one
Lately I feel devoid of words.

Hence my next post as a quote, which
I don't like to do. But I did anyway.



Peace .. elaine67

supaar2
3344 posts 

7/28/2008 2:46 am

Mary at some point we all feel like that. Totally understandable

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