Monostich # 11 The Sunflower
When people admire you
they can all feel equally small
odd for a flower
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When people admire you
they can all feel equally small
odd for a flower
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This one’s almost a haiku, but it’s like it’s slyly expanded outside of that, as though to suggest it defies preconceived form and formal expectations. This reminds me of the tallest poppy thing you’ve mentioned, but it feels like a softer impression of it, arguing that all flowers are admirable, beautiful, unique, weighty, and worthy, even those that don’t reach as tall as the sunflower. It’s even softly iconoclastic, in a sense, to suggest that there’s as much to be appreciated about the daisy and violet strewn beneath towering stalks of seeding grass as there is to the monolith sun flower preening in relative places empyrean. I think, of all of these fabulous stitches, this one feels the most chewable. I was cudding it, watching the poppies and cosmos and plum perfect sunflowers facing the sun this morning. I also love that last line, odd for a flower, as though it could potentially take on a great idiomatic weight—something you say in the face of self-effacement or blithering diffidence. Great poem as always.
Thank you Goldie, I was putting a lot of ideas in there, possibly too many, possibly just enough. I don’t know yet.
I admire your ability to leave meaning more open, because someone at some point in time may feel it exactly as you intended, and for others maybe not. I will say I was thinking about the selflessness of Van Gogh, and about how staring up in awe at something so fragile and ephemeral and beautiful might do something momentarily or even unconsciously to the psyche of a proud human being.
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Thank you Dylan. Shall I write a longer poem about the Sunflower? I thought that I was going to, what with the intensity that it was playing through my consciousness all day
Yes and no. It fits the mono stitch, but I like the longer poem ablount sunflowers. I say this summer follow your animal instincts. Maybe don’t backspace. You know. It can naturally be anything. …..oh my god. Speaking of I watched this colour out of space adaptation called Die! Monster! Die! With Boris Karloff and Nick Adam’s and it was fun….but not as spooky as Nic Cage version. EGAH. ******Speaking of ‘Nature’
The Boris Karloff one was more PG and he does become a Silver Radiated Man. I digress….Sunflowers!!!