Flowers

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Flowers

How they share our
desires, shape
our days.

Passion to hope,
fingertips to
lips. Some bud

easily, others
struggle. A little
water, light, a kind

voice. Sometimes so
little achieves
so much. Yesterday’s

sunflower droops on
the sill. Today’s promise
arrives with rain.

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“Flowers” last appeared on the blog in September 2015.

38 thoughts on “Flowers”

      • Rbt, since we’re both flogging our recent poetry collections, you wanna do a trade, from our private stashes? Since my publisher gets no benefit from mutual give-aways, I’ll BUY your book and you buy mine? From the poems you’ve been posting here, I think I’d like your book. You might like mine ($13, which includes postage). Check it out on my website jefersoncarterverse.com Thanks.

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  3. Robert, I enjoy your poems very much. What inspires you to write? Anything in particular? Time of day? Do you feel like you have always been a poet? If this is too personal then I understand if you don’t choose to answer. I am just curious about other poets.

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    • Thanks, Ali. Not too personal at all. I came to poetry rather late – in my 20s, after I left the Navy and during my last year at college. I believed I was a fiction writer, and took a poetry writing course because I thought it might help my prose. At that point I couldn’t have named five contemporary poets, and knew nothing about poetry. But somehow poetry took over. Nowadays, three decades later, I try to write every day. Nothing in particular inspires me, or perhaps I should say everything inspires me, particularly the ordinary things we may barely notice in our goings around. I have many questions, and poetry helps me frame them. Alas, I have few answers.

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