In this Ekphrastic poem, “Obsession with Roses.”
Growing a rose garden is as challenging and rewarding as raising children. The pruning, nurturing, watering, the guidance, and more. An ekphrastic poem and digital art piece as I describe the appreciation of mothers. Hope you enjoy this!
My mom says there’s only one way to grow a rose garden and that is through love. Love opens her thighs & seeds thrust forth from branches
Seeds from branches blooming like a new bud. Seeds from branches colorful & personalized, open mouths laughing,
our fragrance in the air perfumed with blood isn’t that what they’ve tried first, miniature roses.
Roses, Climbing pink, Hybrid tea, Tiffany, my mother fertilized every seed till she grew a perennial garden from her heart & it reached the sky blue
& the happiness was the site of fluttering butterflies.
Every night heat rose from her garden, she carried her heart like a rosebud & dreamt every night of more seeds. Every petal opening a soft mouth & a suckling tongue, pink and brand new.
Hunger driven and sweet as pink petals in sunlight. Wasn’t it inevitable, she dreamed of the sun stirring stars in the night, that opening of pink or white, that I bounced in her arms.
©Linda J. Wolff 2017
|Obsession with Roses|
An urban ekphrastic poem
What is Ekphrastic Poem?
Poets.org expresses it like this: Ekphrastic poems are now understood to focus only on works of art—usually paintings, photographs, or statues. And new ekphrastic poems have shrugged off antiquity’s obsession with an elaborate description, and instead have tried to interpret, inhabit, confront, and speak to their subjects.
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