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03 June 2010

more than enough

MORE THAN ENOUGH

The first lily of June opens its red mouth.
All over the sand road where we walk
multiflora rose climbs trees cascading
white or pink blossoms, simple, intense
the scene drifting like colored mist.

The arrowhead is spreading its creamy
clumps of flower and the blackberries
are blooming in the thickets. Season of
joy for the bee. The green will never
again be so green, so purely and lushly





new,
grass lifting its wheaty seedheads
into the wind. Rich fresh wine
of June, we stagger into you smeared
with pollen, overcome as the turtle
laying her eggs in roadside sand.

Marge Piercy

More than Enough copyright © 2003 by Marge Piercy and reprinted from The Paterson Literary Review.
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6 comments:

  1. evan03 June, 2010 11:54

    loverly, as always

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  2. lotusgreen03 June, 2010 12:26

    thank you, my lovely friend

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  3. Yoli03 June, 2010 18:26

    I could not take my eyes away from the images.

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  4. lotusgreen03 June, 2010 19:43

    sometimes the need for certain beauty is almost a thirst

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  5. Vesna06 June, 2010 21:59

    what a beauty,thank you so much

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  6. lotusgreen06 June, 2010 22:39

    thank you so much, vesna, for sharing it with me

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