Of Green Plants and Dryer Quarters
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By Michelle Angelini
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Of Green Plants and Dryer Quarters My mind slides down a palm leaf into the lush spider plant jungle barely missing stickers on the row of Crown of Thorns The dryer cycle ends I insert another 50 cents One is a Utah state quarter I looked Large leaves on vines draw my attention there’s only one Mexican squash in sight It’s not my vine, so I will let it be to observe the green vegetable another day Back on the brown leather couch inspiration about life’s ordinary events prompts the beginning of another poem and I resist temptation to check the time When I look up a blue-eyed Siamese-tabby sits on the dividing wall between the two properties The cat stays only a brief time after I talk to her; she’s on her way to other feline responsibilities Oversized fig leaves swing in the breeze; the green fruit is elevated beyond my reach One taste of ripe fig would be nice before birds eat the fruit My mind tastes a ripe fig’s sweet juicy sweetness April 30, 2011 |
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Submitted: Sunday, May 1, 2011
Last Updated: Monday, May 2, 2011
About the Poet
Michelle Angelini, aka Chelle, has been writing poetry for over 40 years. She has been published in many Southern California chapbooks and calendars. I am retired and dealing with my health issues. My Saviour, Jesus is always with me. God holds me within His wings.
I am working slowly on a second book poetry and possibly my photography. And, I'm over 65 now and still loving it, even though my social life is not what it once was because of the painful fibromyalgia. It's quite frustrating, but I know Jesus still has "work" for me to do to show how much He blesses me.
Other Poems by Michelle Angelini
- A New Day, A New Year
- A Tree in Season
- A Very Special Baby
- Amaryllis Unfurling
- An Echoed Voice (for the 10 yr WC C
- An Old Brown Leather Couch
- Ant
- Battle Fatigues
- Beneath Purple Pines
- Blood to Ashes
- But Lord
- Calcium Phosphate Crystal
- Childhood
- Debt
- Fertile Soil
- First Clematis
- Five Fall Haiku
- Full Moon Greeting
- God's Carpet
- In His Arms: Between Two Worlds
- Into Unseen Paths
- More for People at Food4Less
- Never Enough
- No Fancy Words
- Of Green Plants and Dryer Quarters
- Pruning the Branch
- Purpose in Silence
- Questions
- Radical Love
- Sasha
- Seeing with the Soul
- Sleek September
- The Call
- This Cross
- This Cross, This Sinner
- This Star
- This Waiting Soul
- Upon this Cross
- Who I Tell
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