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Perspective: Petalled Planets

A single daisy blooms beside the spacious path I gaily tread. I take a glance and strangely feel attracted to its garnished head. And so I dip into the grass to better see the flower's face, or could that be a heav'nly sphere, and I a victim of its space?-- a petalled planet, so to speak: for who's to say that what I see is not in fact a floral orb with floating fields of gravity?-- the force that forms its atmosphere, compelling colored leaves to cling around its soft pollinic core to form its planetary ring. Akin to Saturn, I would think, if only for its outer shape, but look!--a foreign drifter nears: a bee, see how it gravitates towards the levitating plant as if it was an asteroid? It's quite a grueling task, you see, for any creature to avoid the pull of such a pretty thing. I too am bound, much like the bee, by sight and sense of smell, for they are too the toys of gravity. It would appear that we approach the flower's face because it's fair, but no!--that's surely not the case; we move because our sight's ensnared: the very spheres we use to see are commandeered by gravity, and made to move as if they were some paltry piles of space debris. The nose, a satellite that tracks the signals of a scented source, is not intrigued by fragrant waves, but solely by the flower's force! Suppose this captivating bloom is all I think it seems to be: then that would mean that space is green, and gardens nurture galaxies.

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Date: 8/16/2010 11:13:00 AM
Stopping by to wish you a wonderful inspiration filled week. I enjoyed reading your poetry today, thank you for sharing it Michael. Love, Carol
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Date: 8/15/2010 5:02:00 PM
Enjoyed this one..Very captivating write that got my attention pulled me in and held me enthralled..Keep the creative pen flowing..Sara
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