Love in Helvetia?
A show of hands requested here.
(Searching for love's basis)
(Would lead to basic truth.)
Small beer to ask,
(But wherefore shall we start?)
A beer for those responding.
(The heart won't say...)
And three cheers for the great healer, love,
In mountains far away.
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Intermingling of my poems,
1) "Love in Helvetia" - 2/27/15
and
2) "Love's Basis" - 2/28/15
Contest - Screwed
Sponsor - rob carmack
A win
Love in Helvetia?
A show of hands requested here.
Small beer to ask...
A beer for those responding,
And three cheers for the great healer, love,
In mountains far away.
2/276/2015
The first gardening of the year maybe is small beer
Tightening tired muscles digging the seven by nine,
These great beetroot symphonies so divine where
Rebellion rife not growing this, but the runner bean
Its bright red - orange flowers and pods profuse
Straight and long or turbaned at the tip to try to be
Better than a neighbour's, though I dare not place a bet.
One has to grow tates that Raleigh brought over the Pond
That until a few years ago was no appetiser, being grown as
Fertile compost, but now are edible with butter sliding down
Their crevices even if their shapes arrogant supermarkets decry
And leeks to complement daffodils in the flower garden and mint,
That the Irish bard of our century wrote well its composition, its
Colour, shape, and sharp but pleasant smell and strawberries few,
To share with the garden birds theirs and ours keen cream appetites.
Dead autumn leaves my shroud of love decayed
Then winter snow my frozen coated heart
I built my lonely hall, with walls so tall,
Then hid deep down, beneath the ground sans sound
This lone, which I called home was so forlorn
Hospital hell, my self-made get well cell
Dried clay forest fires flames dance dark descends
Light strikes new roots waterfalls asunder
Dawn cracks in dark, new buds of light shoots through
My thawed out heart, it dares to dream new hope
I hum a song with guilty cautious joy
My eyes smile bright of peaceful open tunes
Spring snowdrop crops to heaven clouds protrude
And Summer showers, bring rainbow beams alive
07/04/2010
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