We Are But A Flower Poem by Sharon Ashworth
We Are But A Flower
A flower falls to the river below
it follows the current moving too slow
over the falls, down to the raging water
the white-capped waves are waiting to slaughter
but the flower sheds a petal none
as it basks in the water under the sun
it catches itself on a rock at shore
it will follow the river current no more
laying in the sun it is in full bloom
but the spectacular beauty will be gone to soon
as darkness casts its shadow on the river
the little lost flower begins to quiver
the beaty it once was has closed to a bud
it lingers on shore stuck in the mud
when morning comes will it still be there
or would it be gone to who knows where
Sharon, I like this one, especially the tightness of it. Don't lose that, its very important. I would suggest that you dropp the rhyme, however. Its tough to do it well. You do it ok, but the sound of unrhymed, tight poetry is a more contemporary, powerful sound, and with it (loose blank verse, as its often called) you'll capture the voices of great, modern poets such as Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Michael Longley, and George Bradley, to name a distinguished few. -LP
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I would like to translate this poem
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4/26/2024 8:08:42 AM # 1.0.0.1119
i agree that there's something passe about rhyming poetry, but forming all your work as a series of rhymed couplets shows some great crafting skills. Frost called it 'playing tennis with a net.' Anyone can return a shot when there is no net.