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The Orchid Garden MAG

February 15, 2014
By 17wkoch PLATINUM, Mequon, Wisconsin
17wkoch PLATINUM, Mequon, Wisconsin
39 articles 0 photos 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
A number two pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.


The day that can only be described by
sorrow and sadness is marked by the
procession led by
a jar of ashes.
She walks past rows of melodic voices and eyes red from saltwater, exiting gracefully from the world that embraced her.
Her troubles,
Her disease,
Her alligator green sweaters,
all things that touched the lives of those around her.
Soon, the only sounds that remain are the splashes from the stream in Her orchid garden.
She is now with the lake and the rook and the dirt and Her orchid garden.

The sun sets upon her garden as she smiles
one last time.


The author's comments:
Dedicated to Kalen K.

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burningsnow said...
on Mar. 1 2014 at 4:14 am
burningsnow, Singapore, Other
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Favorite Quote:
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou

Keep writing! 

on Feb. 26 2014 at 10:20 pm
17wkoch PLATINUM, Mequon, Wisconsin
39 articles 0 photos 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
A number two pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Thank you! That is precisely what I was attempting to deliver.

on Feb. 24 2014 at 6:18 pm
17wkoch PLATINUM, Mequon, Wisconsin
39 articles 0 photos 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
A number two pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Thank you so much! :)

Blynn SILVER said...
on Feb. 24 2014 at 2:42 pm
Blynn SILVER, Waco, Texas
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very good poem, sad, but very poetic

burningsnow said...
on Feb. 24 2014 at 8:56 am
 I love the word choices. This really kindles sadness, but at the same time, I can sense peace...a sense of finality. Beautiful.