When autumn rain pounds
and frost wilts the stems,
I want to snap like a dragon,
but I hold up my head
and dream like a flower.
Copyright 2018 Brenda Davis Harsham
Notes: Snapdragons are fascinating flowers. I used to snap them as a child, yanking down their beards to have them snap back into place. These days, I just snap pictures. This one is from summer, but I can’t keep autumn out of my poem, now that daylight is short and the weather has turned cold. No time for more chat, as I have to revise a story before sprinting to my car and driving to the office.
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WELL—I’ll not call it “chasing”, but I missed your wisdom and photo-poetic company! 🙂
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Thanks, Jonathan! It’s a good day for poetry — too much gray skies and rain.
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And you havre brightened it up more! 🙂
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🙂
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
CHILDHOOD MEMORY FROM A FLOWER—
NATURE HOLDS SUCH POWER!
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All that power is locked into our synapses. Truly amazing. Nice to see you again, friend.
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You also!
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Teehee. We are in the middle of a spring storm which just happened to snap off one of my beautiful snapdragon stems. I was able to rescue it and place it in a vase where it is giving us all much pleasure. Snapdragons are lovely, as is your poem.
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They are such a complicated flower. So amazing up close. Georgia O’Keeffe was so smart to look so closely at flowers.
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Oooh I love this one – it’s very relatable! And not just because I love to make snap dragons talk in the Spring 🙂
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🙂 Life is better if you can be silly in the spring.
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You sound like E. Dickinson again! 🙂
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What a fabulous compliment, thanks!
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Had no idea of their name.
This was a lovely write.
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Thanks!
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Reblogged this on Ace Friends & Bloggers News.
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and luckily you always manage to snap back! )
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LOL Yes!
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Incredibly, we still have some blooming
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I wish we did… More snow due tomorrow I’ve heard.
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I used to press on either side of the flower, you can get the mouthes to open and close depending on the pressure you used.
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Yes, or you can pull the beard and make it talk. 🙂
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Ah…..
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I did not know that are called snapdragons! It reminds my childhood! I used to snap them too ☺️
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You snapped them despite not knowing their names? That is funny!
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Yes ☺️ When I was little…I simple loved to snap them ☺️
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🙂 Pre TV entertainment.
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