Lily

Lily

A Poem by SirEdwinSantosIII
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A short love poem.

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Lily


I can pluck you, Daisy. I can cut you, Rose.


 

I can take you, Lily Flower,


 

From the garden of my memory,


 

And keep you in my Southern window


While my garden’s overrun.

 

I can take you, Lily, to a snow white place,


While my garden goes away,


 

And can freeze you in your beauty there


 

While I sit with you


 

And freeze to death...

© 2021 SirEdwinSantosIII


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And maybe the speaker and the flower to whom he is talking will eventually be pressed together between the pages of a book.
j.

Posted 3 Years Ago


This is a pretty haunting love poem. I'm afraid many lovers have the idea that picking a blossom & taking it away to their own habitat is the right thing to do, but I beg to differ. Despite your chilling message, the poetry is artful & lyrical (((HUGS)))

Posted 3 Years Ago


The cold beauty of a Lily on ice definitely has a gothic feel to it. Tragic, frozen together plucked from memory, Like Snow-white or Ophelia minus the flora and water. It has a danger sewn into the lines,
death becomes her kind of thing.

Posted 3 Years Ago



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Added on September 14, 2021
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Tags: poem, poetry, love poem, love

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SirEdwinSantosIII
SirEdwinSantosIII

Greenville, NC



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I grew up in the deep south. I write poetry and prose about love and corruption. My genres are anywhere from Southern Gothic to Sci-Fi. My favorite authors are Coleridge and Vonnegut. I could only hop.. more..

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