If I Don't Know.
If I don’t know how to be thankful enough
for the clusters of white blossom.
on our mock orange, which has grown tall
and graceful, come into it’s own
like a new start just out of ballet school,
and if I don’t know what to do
about those spires of sky-blue delphinium,
then what about the way they look together?
And what about the roses, or just one of them-
that solid pinky-peachy bloom
that hollows towards it’s heart? Outrageous.
I could crush it to bits.
A photograph? A dance to Summer?
I sit on the swing and cry.
The rose. The gardenful. The evening light.
It’s nine o’clock and I can still see everything.
Wendy Cope.
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What a vividly perfect poem… just that twilight sort of view that simply makes your heart ache… just the peek that Emily took into Grovers Corners in "OUR TOWN"…. Thanks for sharing this.G.
What a vividly perfect poem… just that twilight sort of view that simply makes your heart ache… just the peek that Emily took into Grovers Corners in "OUR TOWN"…. Thanks for sharing this.
G.