Rain Flower
by Ben M Rymer
Wednesday, October 02, 2002
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Hardly has the rain begun
Then the minds shoot comes to bud--
Pithy energy starts
At the skulls base before spreading
Forward to the temples and pupils,
The fledgling life delicate
And tenuous as a rainbow.
Slowly, with the uneven creep
Of starting-to-cool lava
Each minute finger unfists itself,
Haemorrhaging purples and blues as it goes:
More and more and more and more
Colour bursting into existence
Until a violence of yellow is revealed,
Smash in the centre.
No matter how many days weigh down
On this, my minds freshest bloom,
The sepia-wilt of time passing will not rob
Its' brilliance or exuberance-
Its air no summer breeze nor enemy
Winters gusting, rather my own senses fed it
And now capture it in constant genesis,
Never to be destroyed,
Never really having existed.
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