A Wedding Song For the Gods

Her hands, 

        heavily wrinkled,

                      touch the thorns 
on the rose. 

           The petals-

                       color of the pinprick 

of the blood on her finger-

               drop to the table's 

                         cherry bark surface. 

The petals are flour-soft-

                her leathery grasp 

                        feels like sandpaper.

She views the morning, 

                   the pines and maples, and birch, 

                                   their branches cloaked 

in their shiny garb. 

                    The song sparrows congregate
    
                                    as the yellow -daisy tints 

of the sunrise 

                           softly touch 

                                         the ruby-sienna bricks 

of the tenement,

                            in which she quietly yearns-

                                            like the hush..
of falling snow-

                      to bloom again..

                              in a Summer garden.


                              






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October 25, 2020 at 9:52 AM
Very deep poetry and nice use of metaphors.... I like how you formatted it..
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