Wednesday 16 June 2010

Close up…

Such a lovely shade of peachy-pink, not quite sickly candy-sweet. Swirls, sunset reflected waves broken on a distant beach.

Deep coal heart, imperfectly symmetrical. Flawed, repeated, differently identical. A not so quite tamed randomness and dark star centre.

Fresh until the rain falls. A single clumsy smudge from spoilt. Creasing silk of petal, purple pollen to mascara dip then drip to stain the path beneath.

Dip, drip, drip - gone with a single gullible gust.

My oriental poppy, a life short lived in close up. A life blown large as any other.

2 comments:

  1. Philip Morgan commented on Facebook:

    Lovely pic but the words are excellent. You're a lyrical gangsta.

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  2. Fantastic photos. I onced bought an oriental poppy but it didn't stay the pace.

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