Wisteria
Pendulous violet vines drape themselves
along Southern Baptist’s whitewashed walls,
whisper of romance and ardor
most Catholics might feel a need to confess.
Smile as I consider them sinfully heavy with fragrance
rivaling only the elderly matrons and widows
stepping across Sunday's threshold -
yet Easter is for renewal,
for scampering past steadfast glares of disapproval,
allowing spring to enter one's heart.
by Margaret Bednar, April 6, 2018
This is linked with "The Imaginary Garden with Real Toads - Take the Weather With You" & NaPoWriMo - National Poetry Month (30 Poems in 30 Days).
Pendulous violet vines drape themselves
along Southern Baptist’s whitewashed walls,
whisper of romance and ardor
most Catholics might feel a need to confess.
Smile as I consider them sinfully heavy with fragrance
rivaling only the elderly matrons and widows
stepping across Sunday's threshold -
yet Easter is for renewal,
for scampering past steadfast glares of disapproval,
allowing spring to enter one's heart.
by Margaret Bednar, April 6, 2018
This is linked with "The Imaginary Garden with Real Toads - Take the Weather With You" & NaPoWriMo - National Poetry Month (30 Poems in 30 Days).
Now that I reread my poem I think I wrote more for “Take the Season/Holiday with you” - so sorry if I got off the mark again with following instructions !
I will be on spring break for the first few days of April and will schedule my poems in advance - I am unable to figure out how (if I even can) visit and comment on my phone's "BlogTouchPro" app ...
I can post but Mr. Linky does not show up.
So I thank you all for visiting me and commenting and I promise I will visit and comment when I return.
A joyous Easter to all those who celebrate.
I will be on spring break for the first few days of April and will schedule my poems in advance - I am unable to figure out how (if I even can) visit and comment on my phone's "BlogTouchPro" app ...
I can post but Mr. Linky does not show up.
So I thank you all for visiting me and commenting and I promise I will visit and comment when I return.
A joyous Easter to all those who celebrate.
13 comments:
"whisper of romance and ardor
most Catholics might feel a need to confess."
I love that!
Never a more beautiful sight than wisteria against a white wall.
The seasons are filled with weather anyways so you met the prompt. I too loved the 'need for confession' line.
i totally see the sun coming out in this one
and the fair days ahead that shall come again
'whisper of romance and ardor most Catholics might feel a need to confess'.. this is so poignant!💞
I love the thought, of a heart filled with spring.
Love it... a weather I'm still dream about, and it's not a sin to enjoy the fragrance.
whisper of romance and ardor
most Catholics might feel a need to confess.
~ absolutely crushingly evocative - how powerfully expressed!
love it!
I smiled too at their sinful fragrance against the church wall........and the fragrant ladies entering the church. Cool.
"scampering past steadfast glares of disapproval" I love these words, I can remember doing that as a young girl. I love wisteria too, and you paint such a lovely image of them.
Beautiful, funny ... Then that lovely intake of breath to finish.
for scampering past steadfast glares of disapproval,
allowing spring to enter one's heart.
How nice! That's how it should be Marge! Do one's own thing and forget the stares
Hank
Anything 'sinfully heavy with fragrance has to be worth seeing.' Love this, Margaret!
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