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my botanist

Wednesday 8th April 2009 8:42 pm

My botanist,
he ain’t a newt man
he's a fan of women
when he's swimming in ponds
looking for lilies
he’s dreaming of only me
hopefully.
so when he finds them,
he never does,
they float right past him
for i cloud his thoughts
I’m his muddiest feet
he’s my secret friend
I am his stepping stone
I descend on him,
like the sun does the Lilly
every secret evening
I'm his Victorian garden,
the well kept guardian of desire
the secret privet hedge,
in his amazing thoughts
no, he ain’t no newt man
despite his wag tail rituals
despite his flag flail flip, wide eyed woman tricks,
he suggests bottle trapping emotion, especially for me
you worked too many pond dips sunshine!
been a long time in the pond, all wrinkly boy
i ask him to kiss my lil ol lilly lips
pink and red and purlple and blue
out of breath for you
forget all of this
pond tripping botany
love me

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Comments

Rachel Bond

Mon 12th Apr 2010 23:51

this one i like for a few reasons. I have pink red purple and blue lillies tattoed on my arm.this should be a good thing but Im not sure id want to kiss a wrinkly boy from the pond. We all have murky depths...some people want to stare at the slime and algae in hope that life might come of it as if from the primieval swamp.

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Mon 13th Apr 2009 20:47

There's always passion in your work and energy and I particularly like this one .

Pete Crompton

Sat 11th Apr 2009 23:37

Thanks Janet, I reckon you bang on the money!

the idea of the newt man, well a botanist is more loyal than a newt man I reckon, so our newt man he kinda wags his tail in courtships (as newts do) he is going steady with a woman, but he is also in a marriage. His affair lady she kids herself he is just for her, but hes out on the town, looking around.

there is some wordplay too especially on 'garden/well kept/desire'
he liked sort of trimmed things

flag flail flip = his indecisiveness

and of course the obvious pond dips / wrinkly double meanings

she wants to win him over and tackles the challenge in a humorous approach in order to temper her undercurrent of true intention and frustrated desire to have only him

errrr I think!
you prob know better than me

<Deleted User> (5646)

Sat 11th Apr 2009 13:10

A portrayal of freedom laced with a mysterious air, flitting around looking for amusement but missing the vital ingredient to make it satisfactory and in doing all that, is blinded to the obvious.

Hello darling, it was wonderful to see you again at the Tudor. ;-)
Janet.x