cohen’s flowers
It’s right there,
those flowers in the concrete
on corners
choking on dust and exhaust
but surviving.
They always remind me of Cohen,
from Anthem,
y’know, the line about the cracks letting light in?
Those miracle flowers growing in the city
on streets where nothing is left alive,
in body or soul.
But it’s hope
for us to harvest later.
R. L. Elke
© Aug 5/17 prompt 20
Oh this is so delicately beautiful! Your gentle conversational tone draws us in to remember the Leonard Cohen quotation – which we then see in the flowers in the concrete. I love this!
Thank you so much, Annie! Your praise is the world to me – especially concerning delicacy in poems. You are the master of that…thank you so much!