Mystic Rose Rose Poet Quintain (English)

Wish I Could Eat a Pear

I am longing for the spring and panting like a thirsty deer 
too many days have past since I last felt the sun 
beneath anemic skies my body shivers in the clear
I have not become immune to the cold that winter spun 
so angling for heat I turn my collar to the wind and shun 

the whipped willow tree with her gentle arching ways   
her generous weeping branches frozen in mid air 
a healthy thrill of scissor skates, a Christmas winter maze 
perhaps I used to once but now, I got no Bartlett pears 
and my sciatic pain has grown beyond compare 

Craving for a slice of heat or a warm wet pool of water 
I hanker like a hungry squirrel looking for a nut 
hibernate of night nocturnally tucked away diurnal as the otter
perhaps I'm just an old woman falling in a rut 
wearing double swim suits while being pegged a hoarder 

I'm longing for the blossoms of yesterday's sweet garden 
for the roses my father grew inside the lattice square  
back in the days when I used to wear Elizabeth Arden 
my braids were long and brown instead of barely there 
wish it were spring instead of winter, wish I could eat a pear. 

Feb 12, 2022

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Bj Legros Kelley February 13, 2022 at 5:00 PM Old age is really a pain in the backside, a pain in the neck, and a pain just about every place else. My braids too are thin! My grandbabies hair is thicker than mine by a long shot, I was actually thinking how nice it would be to have a hairpiece braided into my hair to pin up in a pretty bun, just today! Love your poem! :)

Rico Leffanta February 13, 2022 at 10:21 AM "There is a season" and one advantage of old age is that it passes incredibly fast! Aloha!

Eve Roper February 12, 2022 at 9:57 PM Another beautiful verse, Vienna, just stunning. Nature in need , and they are so important to us.

Michelle Faulkner February 12, 2022 at 5:46 PM So much here to love, the long days of winter will take their toll, just the other day I had a craving for cherry pie :) Hope you have some nice spring weather soon!