Flower Girl (V2)
(Tears in Your Eyes)
by Michael Lee Johnson / August 16th, 2020
Poems are hard to create
they live, then die, walk alone in tears,
resurrect in family mausoleums.
They walk with you alone in ghostly patterns,
memories they deliver feeling unexpectedly
through the open windows of strangers.
Silk roses lie in a potted bowl
memories seven days before Mother’s Day.
Soak those tears, patience is the poetry of love.
Plant your memories, your seeds, your passion,
once a year, maybe twice.
Jesus knows we all need more
then a vase filled with silk flowers,
poems on paper from a poet sacred,
the mystery, the love of a caretaker?
multicolored silk flowers in a basket
handed out by the flower girl.
Michael Lee Johnson lived ten years in Canada during the Vietnam era. Today he is a poet in the greater Chicagoland area, IL. Michael is an internationally published poet in 44 countries, several published poetry books, nominated for 5 Pushcart Prize awards and 6 Best of the Net nominations. He is editor-in-chief of 3 poetry anthologies, all available on Amazon, and has several poetry books and chapbooks. He has over 536 published poems. Michael Lee is the administrator of 6 Facebook Poetry groups. He now has over 264 poetry videos on YouTube. Member
Illinois State Poetry Society.
poetry 2015
videos on YouTube. Michael Lee can be reached at
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This article was posted on Sunday, August 16th, 2020 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.
