poetica

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Decades before
I knew
to name poetica -
or myself poet -
I swooned
countless hours
in birch shade

steeped
in perfumed sweetness
from modest blooms
arced over me -
moss-cushioned, prone -
acquiescing 
to slight breeze
as, it seemed, 
to me

their dizzying scent
wafting
the young air of spring
transports me back
to childhood,  
an ease
I now know
to name

swb 5.23

2 thoughts on “poetica”

  2. It has been tooo long since you posted Sarah.  Spring it is. Thanks for the lovely poem!Rita

    Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind. ~Henry James (1843-1916)

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