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Outside the garden, the newspaper lands
on the driveway each morning, bringing terrible words;
misogyny, fascist, fraud.
Inside the garden,
we speak another language.
We say esmeralda, brunia, arugula, cylindra;
we say bordeaux, bolero, fiesta.
We speak in flowers:
we say alstromeria;
we say sweet juliet, wildeve.
We say tango.
Bees hear us,
dance.
© by Wendy Morton.
Used with the author's permission.
Photo by Wendy Morton.
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Wendy Morton believes poetry is the shortest distance between hearts. She's the author of six books of poetry, and a memoir, Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast, in which her adventures as a corporate sponsored poet are revealed. Her latest book of poetry, What Were Their Dreams, is a book of photo-poems of Canada's history. Wendy is the founder of Canada’s Random Acts of Poetry project and worked extensively on The Elder Project, earning a Meritorious Service Medal and the Order of British Columbia. In the midst of all that, she worked as an insurance investigator for more than 30 years. Wendy lives in Sooke, British Columbia, where she enjoys watching ravens.
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Antoinette:
Wonderful.
Posted 07/04/2018 07:36 AM
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transitions:
So Original....I loved it too, sent to gardening friends :)
Posted 06/30/2018 11:59 PM
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Lori Levy:
"We speak in flowers." Love that!
Posted 06/29/2018 12:03 AM
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DavidTookey:
Wonderful poem. Well done. Made me smile!
Posted 06/28/2018 05:22 PM
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barbsteff:
Well, some of you say all those flowery words! Clever poem.
Posted 06/28/2018 03:49 PM
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Mary Lou Taylor:
This poem made me dance.
Posted 06/28/2018 03:33 PM
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michael escoubas:
Love Wendy's vibrant, stimulating languaage. Well done! And yes, we DO need medicine against the daily "thrum" of headline news.
Posted 06/28/2018 11:46 AM
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cork:
A beautiful contrast of two languages.
Posted 06/28/2018 09:07 AM
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Charly:
Just perfect, lovely words for this time of disrespect most everywhere. Thank you!
Posted 06/28/2018 08:32 AM
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