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a perfect orchid
by Donna L. Quesinberry → (All Poetry by Donna L. Quesinberry)
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This is a rework with a video reading - if the reading doesn't show up here - click the link. I'm trying some new things this year...


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~a perfect orchid~

i picked an orchid
an anther... picked

searched its crevasse
turned it upside down.

tended its filaments
to view that pistil.

wooed and venerated
a savored bouquet.

drank in all the
carpel nectar.

purified its drink...
positioned it delicately

within my  ... well-etched
hand blown ... lead crystal vase


that buttercup had forgotten.

inflorescence aside,
calyx features discarded

amidst venerable petals,
it blossomed ... atop my lace doily.

later
....it turned color

later
...it crumpled

later
...if fell to pieces
 

(Copyright © Donna L. Quesinberry-2009, Rewrite 2010. All Rights Reserved.)

 

 


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 Reviews of "a perfect orchid"
Reviewed by Darkest Angel (Reader)
Reviewed on May 19, 2010
A great inception and its ineluctable demise. How beauty or anything will come to fruition and go to dust. I love your indulgence of the whole event--almost like it only lasted a day, or even a magical glimpse of much less time passed by. Thanks for sharing.

Reviewed by Tinka Boukes
Reviewed on March 22, 2009
One of Gods most beautiful flowers!!

Love Tinka

Reviewed by Felix Perry
Reviewed on March 21, 2009
these are truly such unique and beautiful of flowers...they are like a miracle of what God seemingly gives us without trying.

Fee

Reviewed by Gene Williamson
Reviewed on March 21, 2009
Donna, from such sensitive handling of the pistil wooed and venerated to the savored bouquet of the carpel nectar, I read with admiration the precision, the diction, of the poetic language that gives such life and beauty and presence to this treasured orchid. -gene.

Reviewed by Richard Cederberg
Reviewed on March 21, 2009
A gracious description, Donna, of one of Gods most beautiful creations. Blessings ...


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