Upon Reading Allen Ginsberg's Green Valentine Blues

Poetry challenge for the Almost Dead Poets Society...to read Allen Ginsberg, and write in his vein

 

 

He found a leaf / shaped like a heart

didn’t he know...

it was a morning glory from the start?

 

Of course there is the moonflower / and

the vines do match

you just need patience for the bud to hatch

and then you wait and watch / wait and watch

so that you can catch

a beautiful white blossom, which opens at night

a moonlike glow in sight

 

I told myself if I got a moonflower to grow / this summer

I will find Love / a dove will coo

and winter shall not be so dreadfully cold

 

I’ve been told

Life does not wait

Death, I put on hold

as I wait...for the answer to unfold

 

The answer is in my moonflower vine

These vines with green hearts

growing upward on a bench made for two

Morning glory with the morning blues

Wisteria wrapping the arch overhead

waiting too / for a future to bloom

 

and I loom in the darkness

barefoot and quiet

by day I dig in the dirt / on an unfulfilling diet

repeat, repeat

 

wait / wait

 

until the answer unfolds

on a vine of green hearts

the delicate, sweet fragrance of my moonflower / dear to my heart

I look to the moon / howl / propose a start

I whisper in kind to my funny valentine

 

 

When will you be mine?

Reviews

[Everett DeValle]

Hey you, loved your verse *snap snap snap* lol, not much to add except that you rocked it, your way. :)

" angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night.." ~ Allen Ginsberg

[Alan L Boles]

.for the answer to unfold, I like this line, a great write