love love LOVE this. love how thoughtful it is without judging the memory morphing as good or bad. love the phrase "dawn-bright loam". thanks for sharing!
also showed this to my gf who started gardening in the past couple years and she loves it too
This is gorgeous; it reminds me of how our experience with things changes as we age, such as with a favourite childhood film as an adult, and the cycle of rediscovery.
The image in the first few stanzas are so striking!! * __ * You really succeeded in capturing how scent is tied so closely to memory!!
the straightforwardness of this is very clean, very powerful. it feels like a monologue, almost, a warning with weight from the line breaks. i like how it closes and ends with 'you never forget the smell'--giving it the definite article and repetition instead of a description
Hey, if it's any comfort, I read other people's pieces all the time before writing my own. It prompts me to think about the prompt in new ways, which gives me a more original idea than what I started with!
Just read your prompt for this week - loved it especially the last few lines!
Looking forward to this- this prompt hits differently when you have synesthesia. :P
i definitely relate to the questions this poem asks in the face of seasonal change and wanting to imitate it and at least get some ounce of that guarantee for regrowth after cold devastation
I really liked this piece! The questions posed to the trees are so earnestly simple, so concisely phrased. And I love the sounds of "only whispers what the wind will allow" as well as the idea. Really cool.
ofc !! will add you rn :]]