The giant reeds’s book



On my grandfather’s veranda is April morning,
I feel confidence when he is near, and is more pleasant to read knowing you are not alone at home.
Nature puts the rest,
I pass through the beige pages,
my book title is: hanging gardens
I find some similarities with the river floral
the plenty wild sunflowers, nest hanging from giant reeds,  
pigeons, woodpecker, my sight reaches a hummingbird.
On the book the poet lacks money, he needs to work more than he wants,
the letters they interchange are friendly letters,
writing projects, poetry love, political struggles,
the poet lacks a garden,
an ordered garden not this wild landscape, with the invisible sun and though environment
Here we lack happy monkeys hanging across the terrific reeds,
I suppose an abandoned Indian temple looks too impressive as the closer familiar houses, the sunbathed fences, majestic ornaments of the wasted land,
instead the cats are everywhere, and at midnight the dogs gather somewhere at the riverbanks.

About this poem

Autobiographical. This poem belongs to a series I’m writing related with a book from Mexican writer Octavio Paz.

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Written on December 18, 2023

Submitted by talygarza on December 18, 2023

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Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKLMGND
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 1,000
Words 177
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16

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1 Comment
  • alanswansea18
    I love so many things about this poem great work.
    LikeReply 13 months ago
    • talygarza
      thanks your comment is very encouraging to keep writing. Greetings.
      LikeReply3 months ago

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