Saturday, June 25, 2011

Strong Scented

Salt Marsh reminds me
Being born and dying
smell much the same.

10 comments:

  1. Oh my Victoria. This one is stunning. I love poems that have a message in a few words.

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  2. Wow, Victoria, amazing poem, the circle of life.

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  3. Oh wow lovely job! Powerful statement

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  4. Wonderful. So much in so few words. I love it. :-)

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  5. I don't picture the smells of both being the same....actually I would hope not.

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  6. Thank you all for your warm comments. Mary, I was at a salt marsh on Saturday when the poem came to me and my sense was that the marsh is a cradle of life - hatchings and births as well as death - circle of life. I saw the smell as being characteristic of both.

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