May Flowers #PoetryCollaboration May 2016

If you have been hanging around for a while now, then you know my friends and I like to join together once a month, pick a theme, and provide you with poetry based on that theme. Well, it's that time again, and our theme for May is "flowers"! So here is my contribution. I hope you enjoy! Don't forget to click the links at the bottom, and check out all the awesome contributions from my friends! 

Poem 1: 

Floral reminders of Spring's arrival and Summer's approach.
Lovely fragrances carried with the breeze.
Orange, blue, pink, yellow, white, red, purple, magenta, teal... 
Wide array of colors.
Eager bees happily pollinating gardens. 
Radiant smiles on faces, while admiring the beautiful blooms.
Sunshine spotlighting the beautiful displays of nature's art.

Poem 2: 

Smiles were once a way of life for us.
Unfortunately they have long since been replaced with frowns and tears.
Now we struggle just to tolerate each other's presence.
Friendship long since forgotten.
Love long since lost.
Once strong feelings of desire replace with feelings of disgust.
Whenever I remember the past, I wish I could do it all over. 
Everything did not need to be this way.
Really, we could have done things differently. 

Poem 3: 

You did it again.
You came home with flowers for me.
You are acting like everything is fine, but I know the truth.
You only bring me flowers, when you have been bad.
You think I am clueless and I don't know.
I do know.
I am not clueless.
I know all about her.
I know you love her.
I know you give her all the things you should give me.
Sure, you give me plenty.
This house, money, clothes, shoes, jewelry, and flowers.
Those are not the things I want most though.
I want the things you give her.
I want you.
I want your love, your passion, your admiration, your time, your heart.
Those are the things I really want, but never get.
I don't understand why I am here.
I don't understand why you married me.
I don't understand why you just won't let me leave.
It is obviously her that you want.
I am tired of being the one you give flowers to.
I want to be the one you give yourself to.
I want to be her.

Poem 4: 

I bought you flowers today.
I decided to buy you a plant, so they last longer.
It is a Camellia bush.
I thought it was fitting, since Camellia is the name I almost named you.
It should grow strong and beautiful, just like you would have.
I will plant it in your garden,
It attracts butterflies, which is fitting, since you are my eternal butterfly.
My best memory of you is the butterfly feelings you filled my belly with.
I hope you love your flowers, and truly enjoy them.
I hope they bloom beautifully for you, in your garden.
I hope you love your garden.
I hope it brings a smile to your face, when you look down at it.
I wish you were here to build it with me.
It is my honor to build it in your memory.
I plan to make it beautiful, just like you.
I bought you flowers today.

I hope you enjoyed my contribution to this month's poetry collaboration!! Now, please go check out the awesome poetry gifts from my friends!!

Karen of Baking In A Tornado

Propagate, Cultivate, Nourish and Flourish

Dawn of Spatulas On Parade

Flower or Flour; Power or Powder

Nothing is forever.... December 2014 Use Your Words

Today’s post is a writing challenge, that I participate in monthly. This is how it works: participating bloggers picked 4 – 6 words or short phrases for someone else to craft into a blog post. All words must be used at least once and all the posts will be unique as each writer has received their own set of words. That’s the challenge, here’s a fun twist; no one who’s participating knows who got their words and in what direction the writer will take them. Until now.

My words are: blue vase ~ washer ~ broom ~ chicken ~ butterfly ~ pumpkin

They were submitted by: http://spatulasonparade.blogspot.
Thank you for these challenging, wonderful words!


As I stand here with the broom, sweeping by the washer and dryer, a chard of blue glass comes out from beneath the washer.
I am instantly brought back to that day.
The day we ate curry chicken and pumpkin pie in the kitchen.
The day you told me you loved me for the first time and gave me a bouquet of sunflowers in a blue vase.
It was a beautiful vase.
Royal blue with a family of butterflies flying around the base.
My favorite butterfly was the small yellow one.
Over the years, each time I would use the vase, I would always make note of the yellow butterfly and how perfect its wings were.
Perfect.
Just like you.
Perfect like the day you gave me the flowers.
Perfect like the years that followed.
In hindsight, I should have known it would end.
Nothing lasts forever, except maybe eternity.
Now you are gone. 
The vase is broken, just like our happy home.
Our love extinguished.
Our eternity over before it really began.
I should have known.
Nothing is forever.


Thank you for taking the time to read this! I appreciate all my readers! I have several posts coming up, including a new blog challenge, that I will be participating in for the very first time.

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Links to the other “Use Your Words” posts:

http://www.BakingInATornado.com                                     Baking In A Tornado

http://spatulasonparade.blogspot.com/                               Spatulas on Parade

http://followmehome.shellybean.com                                    Follow me home

http://batteredhope.blogspot.com                                          Battered Hope

http://stacysewsandschools.blogspot.com/                    Stacy Sews and Schools

http://www.eviljoyspeaks.wordpress.com                                Evil Joy Speaks 

http://www.JuiceboxConfession.com                                  Juicebox Confession

http://eileensperpetuallybusy.wordpress.com/             Eileen’s Perpetually Busy 

http://thethreegerbers.blogspot.ch/         Confessions of a part-time working mom

http://sparklyjenn.blogspot.com/                                    Sparkly Poetic Weirdo