Wednesday, June 28, 2017

i love the color red





i love the color red
so i carved out a window small
with a shard and stone, placing
outside the window
a rose red guarded by her thorns

i placed a field of sweet purple clover distant
but not so very far away, and a
road marked by worn gravel and a
line of wooded pine

i walked the field of clover
and the road along the pine
gathering up a memory and wrote
it in a book - so

that i could visit that very window
where the rose had grown
red forever blooming
guarded by her thorns

untouched or knowable
in the window of my wall

bkmackenzie
copyrighted 2017

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13 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 29, 2017 at 4:02 PM

    Interesting return. Many have a flower, untouched, beyond...

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  2. brudbergJune 30, 2017 at 1:22 PM

    I think we do need that innermost flower well shielded... love the approach to the red red flower.

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  3. indybevJune 30, 2017 at 1:56 PM

    It is good that it is written in a book and can be revisited again and again! Great write!

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  4. Frank HubenyJune 30, 2017 at 8:04 PM

    Photographing or writing something helps the memory which I assume is one of the windows in one's wall.

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  5. Petru J ViljoenJuly 1, 2017 at 4:04 AM

    The point of view both from the interior and exterior produced a vast image, in time, space and the consciousness.

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  6. GraceJuly 1, 2017 at 5:29 AM

    I admire your perspective of the color red and the rose ~ A metaphor for all things we hold dear in our hearts ~ Happy summer ~

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  7. Sarah RussellJuly 1, 2017 at 10:54 AM

    A beautiful tribute to what we guard within.

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  8. AnonymousJuly 1, 2017 at 2:00 PM

    I think you meant carved not craved. You are a rose

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  9. AnonymousJuly 2, 2017 at 9:50 AM

    OOPS replace the t with an r lol

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  10. VictoriaJuly 2, 2017 at 4:59 PM

    Wonderful metaphor, Barbara. I love to return to those meadows and flowers that I hold in my memory bank.

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  11. Sok SarethJuly 31, 2017 at 7:33 PM

    loved the image your words evoked...lovely!

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  12. vaiyboraJuly 10, 2018 at 7:51 PM

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  13. annell4December 5, 2018 at 10:22 AM

    Third time's a charm, I have been having trouble commenting. Lovely poem. I also love red best.

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