Comments on: Sweet-Pea, Under the Stars

By: helenl

helenl — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:54:30 +0000

Interesting, Jessie. I don’t do much with repetition but this was fun.

By: jessiecarty

jessiecarty — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:06:23 +0000

i really like this line “Harmony, melody, child”

By: helenl

helenl — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:30:11 +0000

Thank you, Karen.

By: Karen Hopper

Karen Hopper — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:14:48 +0000

I love this poem. Even though you told Carol part of it was imagination – you have one great imagination Helen. And to be an excellent poet, you do have to have one. So thankful that your offerings are being more exposed. You are deserving.

By: helenl

helenl — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:51:39 +0000

Carol, I don’t remember the smell so much, and I never slept at my grandfather’s house or even tried to. (He lived just over half a mile from our own house, so that wasn’t necessary.) I do remember sweet peas growing on the back yard fence. I imagine my grandmother, who died before my parents even met, planted them there. My grandfather didn’t seem the type to plant flowers. So the flowers are a childhood memory, but the rest is imagined.

By: Carol Connell

Carol Connell — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:50:16 +0000

I imagine it would be hard to sleep if you could sniff the air and smell sweet pea. Is this a memory from your childhood?