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    Ashi
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99-Cent Love Poems - 8. Ode to a Mariposa Lily

Ode to a Mariposa Lily

It’s one of those days,
when the remembrance of a lost photo,
develops into nostalgia,
then the haunting mind hemorrhages
and seeps out phantasmagoria.

If experience is the culmination of time,
and time is something money can’t buy,
does that mean being alive
is priceless moment sublimed?

If I could go back to that pastoral vantage
and oversee the ocean of greenly sameness,
with breeze blowing flowers mostly nameless,
I shall let my mind roam wild,
so it could persevere a memory near lost,
and recapture that beauty eternal:
a mariposa lily,
singular, and very lonely.

The title alludes to a John Keats's poem, Ode to a Nightingale, though this poem uses a more modern language, and length is much more concise.
This free verse poem is more ambitious than the rest in this collection. The opening stanza sets the theme. The second stanza is almost lyrical. And the final stanza finishes where it started.
Copyright © 2018 Ashi; All Rights Reserved.
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Emi GS

The loneliness mentioned touched my heart. Free verse always brought the true emotions to display. I can see that through your poem. Sounded sad at the ending, but it's really a special poem setting different emotions on display.

 

Loved it. :)

 

~Emi.

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Ashi
On 03/14/2017 06:59 PM, Emi GS said:

The loneliness mentioned touched my heart. Free verse always brought the true emotions to display. I can see that through your poem. Sounded sad at the ending, but it's really a special poem setting different emotions on display.

 

Loved it. :)

 

~Emi.

Thank you Emi. :hug:

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Aviana

I loved the second of the poem...being alive is priceless moment sublimed...beautifully worded...nice poem!

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Parker Owens

The first portion of the poem has such jarring images - seeping hemorrhages, such a deadly thought. It colors the rest in melancholy. 

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