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Poetry>New Poem

📝This post is in response to the MTB prompt at dVerse Poets Pub
✒️This post contains a new poem that is the property of Maria L. Berg

Prompt

Today’s prompt from Laura Bloomsbury for Meet the Bar at the dVerse Poets Pub is to write an imagist poem with a color motif. This prompt was so timely as it’s imagist week at ModPo as well.

Poem

Where the Green Meets the Blue

The barely-yellow butterfly flits
over shaggy green grass
darting, dashing, then disappearing
among the small shiny green leaves
of the lakeside bushes

where fluid meets solid
testing definitions and constraints.

Now, a bee sifts through the green blades.
I know it has some yellow, but all I see
is a moving shape.
I don’t hear its warm buzz from here
only lapping waves and a dog
barking in its green yard
under its evergreen trees
on the other side
where the green meets the blue.

Where flowing meets growing
this lush stillness is always in motion.

A breeze sets the green leaves rustling.
My sage and basil tremble in their pots.
Ferns poke through the slats of the old deck
only used to hold the floats of summer.
Right now, the butterfly flapping
around the rosemary and dill
might not know that summer
is coming to an end.
How could it when everywhere it rests
is so green?