Janet Smith
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Pastime trenz pruca
Hometown seattle, washington
job photographer
interests landscape, portrait, travel
Poem Titles
> GRANDE FLORA ALBA
> IMAGINE
> WAITING
GRANDE FLORA ALBA
Living alone can be pure space
Between a whisper of passing raindrops
The cream white globes of blooming
“Grande Flora Alba” magnolias
Petals falling open
resting languorously on terse green oval leaves.
Leaning from my upstairs window
I want to touch each one.
Never before so many buds
Spicy lemon fragrance floats
A bee descends, drifts in and out a giant bloom
in drunken pleasure.
A drop of water slides off a waxy leaf
A southern petal slightly droops
The pearly sky pulls down the light
And I hang in the interim.
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IMAGINE
Noon sun hits the stucco wall
projects a shadow dragonfly
An old, tall orchid commonly seen
April green in rusty pots
settled in a driftwood box.
Near by the smallest newest plant
has spindly spires spraying buds
Surprise !
A birthday gift bloomed in June
And now October blooms again !
The Christmas cactus way ahead
is bursting buds in ecstasy.
Some are open, tendril rose
Multi blooms in twos and threes.
It cannot wait another month
Abandonment aesthetically
I never know what happens next
I think I do, but that’s the fun
The moon can cross before the sun
The champagne light can seek the wall
The shadows long smudge gray and tall
Red blooms now purple, buds in shade
A reverie of night and day
Eclipse the burning light of noon
A new surprise brought by the moon.
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WAITING
Sunlight shapes
on terra cotta brick
lilting leaves
patterning trembling
silks the breezes sing.
The pale green starlit orchid
organdy fresh
Pink purple phalanopsis
iridescent from the sun.
Through the open door
light lying on the carpet floor
drawing charcoal streaks
shadows shake
on the teakwood table
touching curved wood chair
reaching, reaching for
the dusty wine glass
empty there.
