THE CHANGE INTERVIEWS
Poetry > Plays > Projects
Alice Shapiro
Alice Shapiro
WEEDS
By Bryan Borland
They populate the soil
in our front yard
alongside
the marigolds and roses,
pretenders,
trying to blend in,
sometimes succeeding.
Sometimes they grow taller
than their counterparts,
haughty and proud
to have survived
another weekend.
I eyed them warily at first,
taught that
if you let one in
others are sure to come,
schooled that
they will taint the rest,
stain the innocent seedlings
and shade the truly deserving
from God's gaze.
It is perhaps
a mark of my own kind heart
I pay them no mind
another Saturday morning,
let them flaunt
their wild difference
one more week.
Copyright © 2009 by Bryan Borland
"Weeds" has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize through vox poetica.
www.bryanborland.com
By Bryan Borland
They populate the soil
in our front yard
alongside
the marigolds and roses,
pretenders,
trying to blend in,
sometimes succeeding.
Sometimes they grow taller
than their counterparts,
haughty and proud
to have survived
another weekend.
I eyed them warily at first,
taught that
if you let one in
others are sure to come,
schooled that
they will taint the rest,
stain the innocent seedlings
and shade the truly deserving
from God's gaze.
It is perhaps
a mark of my own kind heart
I pay them no mind
another Saturday morning,
let them flaunt
their wild difference
one more week.
Copyright © 2009 by Bryan Borland
"Weeds" has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize through vox poetica.
www.bryanborland.com
|
|
2:07 m
Bryan Borland is a poet and writer living in Little Rock, Arkansas. His work has or will soon appear in Ganymede, Breadcrumb Scabs, Velvet Mafia, vox poetica, Young American Poets, and Shape of a Box, among other publications. His first full-length collection, My Life as Adam, will be available in 2010. Visit his website at www.bryanborland.com