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
- Robert Burns: Her Answer:
- Владимир Высоцкий – За окном только вьюга, смотри
- Devotion by Robert Frost
- Виктор Гончаров – Больной, как будто бы гранату
- Dust of Snow by Robert Frost
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Чувство
- The Benefactors Of The Little Box by Vasko Popa
- With Antecedents. by Walt Whitman
- Cheery Beggar poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Flying Home by Sudeep Sen
- XIV: Some Verses: To Mr. Edward Allane by William Alexander
- The Cactus Thicket
- Makin’ It Natural by Shel Silverstein
- Will the SEZ Act Boost Exports?
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песенка про мангустов
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).