White Dahlias Poem by Tom Billsborough

White Dahlias

Rating: 5.0


I am the outward show
Just as these brief white flowers
Which sense and gather
In experience
And then become these
Lanterns of pale yellow
Which hang below the filaments
With completed and discreet potential.
Turn off the light!
So that our sleep's renewal
Keeps us warm
Within its dreamy capsule
Until the morrow's waking hour
When seeds disperse
And we invent new words
To populate our songs.

Friday, August 10, 2018
Topic(s) of this poem: creativity
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
The seed cases of the Dahlia resemble Chinese Lanterns
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Nika Mcguin 29 August 2018

Until the morrow's waking hour When seeds disperse And we invent new words To populate our songs. Simply beautiful Tom! Those closing lines are truly lovely. There's definitely something sweet and magical about this write. Well done! ~

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Bharati Nayak 28 August 2018

So that our sleep's renewal Keeps us warm Within its dreamy capsule Until the morrow's waking hour When seeds disperse And we invent new words To populate our songs. - - - - Our creativity sleeps in our dreams , but it gets life by the warmth of morning sun - -It blooms to beauty like white Dahlia to populate our songs.- Wow- mesmerizing beauty in this poem.

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Bharati Nayak 12 August 2018

I am the outward show Just as these brief white flowers Which sense and gather In experience And then become these Lanterns of pale yellow Which hang below the filaments With completed and discreet potential.- - -A great write- - -I will come back to read it again.

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Rose Marie Juan-austin 11 August 2018

A beautiful imaginative write. It captures the beauty of white dahlias and vividly depicted its. seeds. A kind of plant that provides some of the.garden's biggest and most spectacular blooms. Love dahlias. They are generous in flowers...10++++

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Tom Billsborough

Tom Billsborough

Preston Lancashire England
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