Sunday, April 12, 2015

Pre-face

 Art by Kumiharu Shimizu
"Budding Tulip" by Kumiharu Shimizu


“This is the day to bite your tongue…”
Psychic tip of the day,
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This is the day to bite your tongue…
in giving mood, attention to sound,
body perceives an extraneous stimuli,
ears – long enough to spot hypnotizing
tom-tom in the cartridge on the flowerbed;
head? – how big or not at all, while
everything needed for ravishing  life –
just water and strength – touching the roots
fertilizing talk.


For now, this is the day to bite your tongue…
the first page/ copying the manners of
twins around, mirroring colors (why not orange?),
the form, the legend: where/why came from,
a membrane to pull on for air ventilated truth
thru a canal from underground savvies bulbs
between the roots and stems  to propagate,
carry weight  to new territory
meta-morphing silent budding tulips…

Read more at: Sunday's Whirligig 2

Shared with PU Poetry Pantry #247

26 comments:

  1. It is wise to sit back and reflect in doing so to mirror the tulip! Hopefully it works!

    Hank

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  2. This is certainly the right time of year to contemplate tulips.

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  3. Loved this poem.. :D very powerful language & imagery :)

    This is the day to bite your tongue…
    in giving mood, attention to sound,
    body perceives an extraneous stimuli,
    ears – long enough to spot hypnotizing
    tom-tom in the cartridge on the flowerbed;
    head?

    Im assuming you mean to use our senses to experience the beauty of tulips :D
    I loved these lines.. simply lovely :)
    xoxo

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  4. Bite my tongue you say? pfffft to that, says the cat. Okay with Pat lol

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  5. The contemplation of "everything needed for ravishing life" - the roots, and stems, and water.....it is the time of tulips!

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  6. what an interesting take and images.

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  7. Love the season when the tulips are budding.. so much built-up energy to be released.

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  8. It really is indeed the season to begin thinking about flowers, tulip and others that pop out in spring!

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  9. I am looking forward to those budding tulips, smiles ~

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  10. So much great writing all over the place, this is one of them. Very nice!

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  11. tulips and flowers---lots of things to contemplate

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  12. This is the day to bit your tongue..a time for reflections..with the tulips.

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  13. All we need precious tulips need too....

    Donna@LivingFromHappiness

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  14. I am totally ready for the tulip and flower season. They are among my favorite flowers, maybe because they signal the beginning of spring.

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  15. The title is a true gem - how we paste on a smile like a flower head...when our strength and meaning is in the roots...a little like trees again maybe? xo

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  16. love the silent preparation for the show...day of tulips indeed :)

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  17. Beautiful. Many days are days I must bite my tongue.

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  18. The image you have selected is beautiful! and the words as well!

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  19. Spring is always a fascinating time. How bulbs store all they need over winter - (though some bring bulbs in because sometimes it can get even too cold for them) and then they announce the changing of the season. So perhaps we too can put aside our winter worries and let beauty flow from our lips.

    Thanks for your visit. Compassion could be too much, when a villain does not care and just wants silence or to hear their own drumming - compassion does not always stop a knife or a bullet, or even foul words.

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  20. Nice. Tulips are indeed beautiful and well rooted, as we all should be. Enjoye this poem full of Spring.

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  21. Spring is simply brimming with colours and flowers bursting into life...I'm always sad when the spring flowers fade away...Seasonal change..

    Eileen

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  22. Tulips are quite mystical. They are like buds in the early morning but open during day time. Just like in writing poetry :)

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  23. Tulips make a wonderful choice for a poem topic.

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  24. Thank you very much for all inspiring comments! Happy Spring :)x

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  25. I do wonder what it would be like to mirror colors, although I would hope that orange would not reflect back at me! (I prefer blue.)

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