NAPOWRIMO #15: ERNIE

For 2011's National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo), Troy's Work Table is attempting to write thirty poems in thirty days without the help of writing prompts from other websites.

Many of these are still in some sort of draft stage, but that is the nature of the Work Table.

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ERNIE

Ernie the globe thistle
lives his own Easter:

each spring the stubby
stalk begins to grow

spreads out his long
lithe leaves reaching effortlessly

toward the sallow sun
of the Pacific Northwest.

He tickles the leaves
of his gathered children

little Ernies and Esthers
of his Easter seeds

each growing quickly green
(after the fall cutting

and a winter sleep)
toward a summer day

purple planets humming bees
spreading pollen for more

Ernies to emerge for
next spring’s paschal show.

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