It Is a Small Plant Poem by William Carlos Williams

It Is a Small Plant

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It is a small plant
delicately branched and
tapering conically
to a point, each branch
and the peak a wire for
green pods, blind lanterns
starting upward from
the stalk each way to
a pair of prickly edged blue
flowerets: it is her regard,
a little plant without leaves,
a finished thing guarding
its secret. Blue eyes—
but there are twenty looks
in one, alike as forty flowers
on twenty stems—Blue eyes
a little closed upon a wish
achieved and half lost again,
stemming back, garlanded
with green sacks of
satisfaction gone to seed,
back to a straight stem—if
one looks into you, trumpets—!
No. It is the pale hollow of
desire itself counting
over and over the moneys of
a stale achievement. Three
small lavender imploring tips
below and above them two
slender colored arrows
of disdain with anthers
between them and
at the edge of the goblet
a white lip, to drink from—!
And summer lifts her look
forty times over, forty times
over—namelessly.

Thursday, June 18, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: plants
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Britte Ninad 25 June 2018

I am dreamless sleeping but all hopes implant a continue seed of breath water on the root of hope- a pale hope living giant plant but in paralyzed the continue seed - nothing to be ended.....

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Kumarmani Mahakul 25 June 2018

Wonderful expression on small plant having nice collocation. Beautiful poem shared.

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Glen Kappy 25 June 2018

the title—a small plant. but the shape of the poem, like a stalk, looks tall. how much there is in the things we often overlook. how much from a macro view. -gk

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Lungelo S Mbuyazi 25 June 2018

Such a fine nature write...wonderful

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Mahtab Bangalee 25 June 2018

wonderful words- Blue eyes a little closed upon a wish achieved and half lost again, stemming back, garlanded with green sacks of satisfaction gone to seed, nicely expressed

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Bernard F. Asuncion 25 June 2018

Such a wonderful poem by William Carlos Williams👍👍👍

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