Originally published: 19th January 2021
Image:Susann Mielke from Pixabay
This poem was placed 1st in the "Garden Inspirations" contest sponsored by Bj Legros Kelley (Judged 22nd April 2022)
a bench with ornate arms and scrolling bathed in shards of early light inside four walls of climbing roses grown entwined and trained to height. within the silence of mid morning perfumed heat that melts the hours attracts the bees that prey and worship on life's purple passion flowers. the symmetry of formal hedging leads the eye in one straight line to where a sundial in the heat haze casts its shadow marking time. the joy and beauty of hibiscus flowering bright where no one goes down secret paths in secret corners where the scented jasmine grows.
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