カキツバタ: Kakitsubata

Pick me from your purple passion
an Iris
infatuation
infestation of the heart
 
second helpings
in your serene sight
stalks of green
flavors gin  
teething from your bottle
biting
in the early morning hours
 
breaking on the ground
buds bloom for you
landing rainbows reap rewards
wrought fourth growth
 
dew  
dripping  
from blades
thornbirds
pale yellow
 
i'll fly on foreign  
sweet flags
fragrant roots
coat of arms
aimed at  
by arrows and rifles of armies
ripping through the nights arteries
 
gateway  
to the Great Smoky Mountains
queen cities in the sky
harbor me  
a fugitive of Love
 
from the early light
peeking over hills
fences with knot holes for peering
houses to jump off when mom said not to
 
casting over the garden bed
we watched death take down dawn
in all it's light and glory  
faded from the world for a time
 
sharpshooter of the eyes
eating skin off
the queen of angels
so quiet it's cumbersome
 
samurai sleeping next to
blue beauties
killed in their sleep  
tiger never saw the heat of battle
 
wild in Japan
 
you are my Iris
 
 
 
 
 
 
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my flower