Tomatoes rosy as perfect baby’s buttocks,
eggplants glossy as waxed fenders,
purple neon flawless glistening
peppers, pole beans fecund and fast
growing as Jack’s Viagra-sped stalk,
big as truck tire zinnias that mildew
will never wilt, roses weighing down
a bush never touched by black spot,
brave little fruit trees shouldering up
their spotless ornaments of glass fruit:
I lie on the couch under a blanket
of seed catalogs ordering far
too much. Sleet slides down
the windows, a wind edged
with ice knifes through every crack.
Lie to me, sweet garden-mongers:
I want to believe every promise,
to trust in five pound tomatoes
and dahlias brighter than the sun
that was eaten by frost last week.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Thou Reader. by Walt Whitman
- Leave Me, O Love Which Reachest But To Dust by Sir Philip Sidney
- The New Path
- A Rhyme About an Electrical Advertising Sign by Vachel Lindsay
- October, 1803 by William Wordsworth
- Михаил Кузмин – Я знаю вас не понаслышке
- Алексей Плещеев – Ноктюрн
- Academic Graffiti by W H Auden
- Book Ninth [Residence in France] by William Wordsworth
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. In the Forest. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Sher Afzul
- Paradise Regained: The First Book poem – John Milton poems
- Mad Nuclear Mushrooms by Adeola Ikuomola
- A Manual, More Ancient Than The Art Of Printing, And Not To Be Found In Any Catalogue by William Cowper
- The Declaration of London by Rudyard Kipling
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
