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Lotus Bloom

Strange Water Lily, your petals
delicate as a rainbow.
Seeing your wonder in this moment
eases dark memories,
yet there in clear water below
your black, feathered roots
appear  strangely sinister.
Suzanne Delaney

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Liam Mcdaid

November 29, 2014 at 11:50 PM

suzanne love the picture this for me excellent pen

Timothy Hicks

November 10, 2014 at 2:07 PM

Oooh I think I'll have to add this to my favorites. The description was so poignant it almost felt like if I dared to touch the lotus bloom it would bit me like a venus fly trap - my imagination likes to run away with me. It also kinda reminds me of one of my favorite haiku - I believe the author was either Issa or Buson - in this world/we walk on the roof of hell/gazing at flowers.

Connie Marcum Wong

October 7, 2014 at 8:36 PM

Ah Suz, my kind of poem that conveys the beauty with the contrast of view above and below! Wonderful! I hope you will share this with PFT. Hugs, Connie #7

Monterey Sirak

August 24, 2014 at 6:58 AM

I am glad to see a new poem from you. I have been missing your words. This one is worth waiting for. Beautiful moments tethered by dark memories. Awesome!