Hi Marilyn,
Long time no see! Perfect title for this lush poem. Now we know why your
email addy is micolors!
CW, Mary :O)
--- Marilyn Injeyan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Verdure
>
> In that green before we knew
> grass would ever turn
> brown and breasts burn red
> from Big Bang's whimper,
> we watched manic maples
> scramble into magic, clouds
> thread and lace the sky, robins'
> tug of war with worms, bluebells
> wave, bluebirds fluff and ruffle
> spring and a Cheshire cat comb
> whiskers, we raced, burrowing
> deeper into green, dozed
> in buff-filtered afternoons.
>
> Our universe expanded, ambered,
> then shrank into a lidded box, incognito,
> artists' brushes buried away.
> Like the pimpernel, we closed fluted
> petals in the frost. How brown our lives
> until somewhere a solo clarinet
> awakened those wild-eyed dreams.
>
> Wisdom's juggernaut flings aside
> careless, fettered years. Mien
> and decorum dissolve. Kneading paws
> press, caress full-blooded joy.
> Cosmos flashes wonder. In silence,
> a thin membrane separates us from chaos.
> We breathe another sun and galaxies
> between the gas and dust.
>
> The sky is green tonight, grass
> an emerald Oz. In Mom's old piano
> bench, two leaves of Rhapsody in Blue
> quiver. Though my hands still ache
> to stretch easy octaves into ecstasies,
> that instrument's been gone five decades.
> But in a garage cupboard, pastels and oils
> coax melodies. From umbrage, feathered
> voices clutch. Nestlings clamor to be fed
> fistfuls of beauty after a long day's hunger.
> Marilyn Injeyan
> March 24, 2002
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