Saturday, December 18, 2021

A December Sunflower but No Cigar - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com 

https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

 

A December Sunflower but No Cigar

 

While walking in the garden, thinking about things

And wishing I had a cigar, I saw a sunflower

A volunteer, a brave young volunteer

From late summer’s glorious display

 

Most everything around it was brown and down

Except for a few tiny timid weeds

Some withering blades of tenacious grass

And a few scruffy zinnias along the fence

 

In January’s frosts it will disappear

But for now, the little sunflower - and we - are here

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