Your Gift To Me
The first sweet peas of the season
spring up around the garden gate
white as the half moon
and blushing pink as the dusk
that falls on them like a soft cloak.
A trinity of dusk, moon, and sweet peas
unite in a small bouquet
I present to you, husband
and you pause in your evening chores
to bend and breathe deeply
the fragrance of sweet peas.
Your smile is like the half moon
in a dusky sky.
This is the only essential thing
that has happened all day.
It slides safely into the pocket of my memory
for pondering in leaner times.
The first sweet peas of the season
spring up around the garden gate
white as the half moon
and blushing pink as the dusk
that falls on them like a soft cloak.
A trinity of dusk, moon, and sweet peas
unite in a small bouquet
I present to you, husband
and you pause in your evening chores
to bend and breathe deeply
the fragrance of sweet peas.
Your smile is like the half moon
in a dusky sky.
This is the only essential thing
that has happened all day.
It slides safely into the pocket of my memory
for pondering in leaner times.
*****
Theme Thursday this week is "pink."
26 comments:
And here I was thinking that Sweet Pea was a character in Popeye!
Lovely -- I felt as if I was there smelling that sweet fragrance.
Here we are in autumna with rains and piles of dead leaves. Lovely too but in a different way.
smiles. love how you wrapped it up in those last 2 lines...
Beautiful thoughts --- and I love how it ends with "pondering in leaner times" a great thing in which to have to ponder on.
Joanny
This poem is like a prayer of gratitude! I love it!
hmmm I spooned a moon...
Love you!
the word verification was trove!
Di
"A trinity of dusk, moon, and sweet peas unite in a small bouquet" ... OH, that's gorgeous!
I remember sweet peas from my childhood in southern CA. Just this color too. Nice photo.
I like your words "blushing pink".
The bouquet you describe is lovely.
Yes, savor this moment and bring this memory out often.
And it was an "essential" thing and it will hold you up in "leaner times"...just beautiful.
Really nice. I react the same way to the smell of our lavender and lilly-of-the-valley. It's so wonderful this time of year.
Beautifully written. It has left me wanting to take a walk in a beautiful garden.
http://jingleyanqiu.wordpress.com/2010/05/06/theme-thursday-think-pink-thoughts/
mine is up.
Happy Theme Thursday!
magical poem,
lovely pink theme post!
So beautiful; and gives me something lovely to think of. Thank you!
A thankful tribute expressed with such beauty in verse and photo.
Beautiful, everything about this post, the picture, the imagery... Just beautiful.
I will be back to visit again xJ
Perfectly lovely. Thank you so much for this gem.
PG
A present to your husband. That is really nice. I like the statement about the pocket of memory too. How true that is.
magnificent! I love sweet peas and your words-happy TT
oh that was sweet..lol..I mean it!
I think I will plant some sweet peas:)
What a nice way to appreciate your best friend.
there were sweet peas every year behind a shed and along a hedge on my parents property when i was growing up. i looked forward to them every year. i wish there was something like there where i am now.
That´s so beautiful!
This is very pretty in pink! I love sweet peas.
My post for Pink, close to my heart, is up here.
Special moment and a scent to trigger the memory. Lovely
This melted my heart. Lovely take on TT.
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