harvesting colour – Rough Bedstraw
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Rough Bedstraw
Gallium asprellum Michx.
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along the sleepy river
green shoreline, plumped and pillowed
rough bedstraw, river trick
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river and shoreline beckon
you to bed down, settle down
get a little shut-eye, tough
stuff bedstraw, mattress thick
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shoreline a bedroom, rough
bedstraw, green mattress, blue sky
bedspread, blue river tick
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orchard along the Saint John River
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Published as ‘Rough Bedstraw, Canadian Stories 17 (99),October/November 2014
Copyright 2014 Jane Tims
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Look at all those apples just waiting to be picked! Love the poem – how wonderful it would be to take a nap on a bed of grass – it’s been way too long since I’ve done something like that.
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Barbara Rodgers
October 25, 2014 at 1:01 pm
Hi Barbara. You’ve said it all! Jane
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jane tims
October 26, 2014 at 4:39 pm
It’s wonderful to read your poems and enjoy your photos. Thanks for sharing them. I can hardly wait for your book.
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Carol Steel
October 24, 2014 at 9:19 am
Hi Carol. Thanks. As soon as I finish this manuscript, I am going to concentrate on getting a book of poems published. Jane
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jane tims
October 25, 2014 at 9:42 am