Monday, October 3, 2011

Image inspired poem - week 5

(Looking at my image - attached to IU Forum due to Blogger complication, of a field of poppies)


A tsunami of color crashes against the shore

Flooding the field in shades of red.

Taught, and tight,

The Earth tugs at her blanket

Masking the tip of her toes and head.

Fully absorbed in a crimson comforter,

An I.U. alumnus camps on a December night.

Shielding its’ soiled-stems from sight,

Flowers, are Earth’s little-umbrellas.

A distant tree cries all alone.

Skipped of a vibrant design

And crowded by brilliant peers,

It submits its shade, lower his head,

And sways gently with the wind.

- Casey Grisham

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