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a love like ivy

December 15, 2017
By BlondePoet GOLD, Columbia Heights, Minnesota
BlondePoet GOLD, Columbia Heights, Minnesota
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the battered cottage

with its mismatched shutters and

patchwork roof yearns for?

 

a love like ivy:

a natural love that grows

on you until its

 

existence seems as

obvious as butter spread
on pumpernickel

 

bread; a gentle love

that abstains from dismantling
your structure unlike

 

the amorous storms

which came before it;
a healthy love that

 

requires tending, not

coaxing – whose affectionate
vines gravitate to

 

you instinctively

(you mustn’t persuade them to
come or to stay). such

 

is the love that you,

my resilient cottage, deserve.
spurn anything less.



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