Picking Flowers

In the fields as she picks flowers
Beauty compounds within the scene
She holds them hearing their powers
In the fields she picks her flowers
They never did seem at all sour
Her soul holds them dear as she’s seen
In the fields as she picks flowers
Beauty compounds within the scene

Russell Sivey
Copyright © | Year Posted 2012

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Dietrich Avatar
December 4, 2012 at 1:48 PM
NIce, Russell. Keep that poetry flowing!!
Johnson Avatar
December 3, 2012 at 5:05 PM
ah yes perspective grows the loved one shows, the flowers, those, that we can surely see:)
Horne Avatar
December 3, 2012 at 3:02 PM
lovely write indeed, my friend - a tricky form, I find, but you make it look easy
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