Hello Poetry
Submit your work and get some sparkles! Create free account
Fowl meadow grass - Glyceria striata - the striations on the lemma. Drooping rachis a weeping willow of a grass. Recurring periwinkles, myrtle, Vinca. Helicopter petals. Evergreen leaves. Escaped from gardens, alien or native? A little further by the spruce stand a new mustard, cuckoo flower - Cardamine - with pinnately compound leaves. What a find! A good day turns bad. After you've died, one of them dogs digs up your grave. You may sit in the rain and think. Maiden pink. The dark circle inside the flower a g-string or garter. O to fail well. To lay low. To live long. To run slow. Feel the hill. Pressing down. Do less. Until one thing's done well.
0
Aug 9, 2015
Aug 9, 2015 at 6:06 PM UTC
To Fail Well
Fowl meadow grass - Glyceria striata - the striations on the lemma. Drooping rachis a weeping willow of a grass. Recurring periwinkles, myrtle, Vinca. Helicopter petals. Evergreen leaves. Escaped from gardens, alien or native? A little further by the spruce stand a new mustard, cuckoo flower - Cardamine - with pinnately compound leaves. What a find! A good day turns bad. After you've died, one of them dogs digs up your grave. You may sit in the rain and think. Maiden pink. The dark circle inside the flower a g-string or garter. O to fail well. To lay low. To live long. To run slow. Feel the hill. Pressing down. Do less. Until one thing's done well.
robert-ronnow
Written by
Aug 9, 2015
Aug 9, 2015 at 6:06 PM UTC
Request permission to use this poem