Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Bleeding Hearts Will Blossom Thanks to You

Written for ABC Wednesday's Letter B Challenge:

Bleeding Hearts by Paul Appleton


Bleeding Hearts Will Blossom Thanks to You

Bleeding hearts will blossom thanks to you
Because of all you gave and all you withheld
You beguiled me from the beginning
And I
In return had burdened you with my belongings
Begging
For you to take me in
Under you your wing
I beckoned for you
For years
Believing that I would bump into you in happenstance
Because I deserved to
Because I deserved you
But in bestowing such an honor upon you
I built you the marble pedestal
That I in turn latch onto
Betraying my instinct to run.
Before I knew you
My boisterously beating heart befriended no one
But you built my bridges
And burned them down respectively
Leaving me effectively
Immobile
Bowing out with global
Understandings
Of our nonexistent love.
And I’ll admit
That in bending to your bidding
It was only the beginning
Of the binding of my being
Which was bursting into bits.
Beyond the bewilderment of your abandonment  
In the grasp of a bothersome body
My blistered digits will one day behold a beam of hope
That in time will breach the barriers of my skin
And bring the breath back to my lung
Blessing me for the timely revelation
That my bleeding heart has blossomed thanks to you.

16 comments:

  1. Lovely words and lovely flowers for the B day! Hope your week is going well, Robin!

    Sylvia

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  2. I like the way in which you have structured this, Robin, weaving in and out words with 'b' and yet still keeping your main theme of involvement and loss. I like the outcome.

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  3. Wonderful pairing of words and photograph. I love bleeding hearts. Mine didn't come up last year and I need to replace it.

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  4. Very creative words, with so many B's, and I love the photo of the Bleeding Heart.

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  5. The bleeding heart photo is beautiful. Lots of B's in this post. Very creative.

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  6. Delicate flower and strong poetry!

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  7. beautiful, indeed


    ROG, ABC WEDNESDAY team

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  8. Very romantic !
    Gattina from the ABC Team

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  9. You are a great writer! I like how you wrote the poem, and it matches the picture wonderfully. Excellent!

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  10. First, I love bleeding hearts. Second, your poem spoke to me on a very personal level...a lifetime ago yet seems like yesterday. Beautiful thoughts and photo.

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  11. Great photo and poem! Great post for B

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  12. Robin,
    I just love your poetry.This piece was so good, I'm going to read it again.
    "Because I deserved to
    Because I deserved you"
    Powerfull...

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  13. wonderful poem and a perfect picture. the bleeding hearts are so unique!!!

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  14. What lovely flowers. But they are quite sad.

    My mum has done a B Wednesday too.
    http://eldritchdragon.blogspot.com/2010/07/b-is-for-basilisk.html

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