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Gardening Eventually I begin to understand what the old black gardener has told me at the dinner table, licking his tequila-burnt lips: when I die I'd rather die in my garden! The warmest soul I've ever met in this Land of Free. A weather-beaten vet of wars as well as unpleasant history (not just between the opposite skin colors) that only enriched his earth. He laughs like the happiest man alive, telling jokes of the South. Old American jokes, English jokes. When he talks about the widow he's infatuated with, his eyes were filled with grateful sparks as if she were one of the precious flowers of his garden. Had it not been too late into the night, he would have taken me to see his garden, or gardens, brought into life & blossoming by his big, wide hands. It is a neglected neighborhood, my friend told me: You hear guns go off at night. They won't even deliver pizza to us! I think of him now in my own garden talking to my own flowers: I am worshipping the cockscomb crown on Celosia's head. I have to bend to kiss her forehead so low to the moist ground. I am curious about the dreams the hummingbird has heard from my white Petunia: Love, love. Nothing but Love! I am told. Between the graceful Lavender and the succulent Hen & chicks, a kind of girl talk, flirtatious, too private to eavesdrop. Their fragrance quickens my heart. In the morning mist, I decide to get lost in Dianthus's myth, admiring her magical corona, her rain-happy body and hair. What's happiness? I ask Marigold. Before he turns his sun-searching eyes, I feel the wide, thick hands of the old black gardener's, shaking mine: I ain't need no more in this world. All I want from that God above is to let me die by my flowers! :june/05
stay cool!
what happens in zuozhoushangbixuan, stays in z.z.s.b.x.
:))
今年天熱，蟲很多。
人是什麽樣的人，還需要論證麽？
No, no no!!!
:)
Can't stand looooooooooooooong theories :)
人是什麽樣的人，還需要論證麽？又不是寫議論文：)
thank you for the definition: [現代漢語“平凡”：平常；不稀奇]
What about “偉大”？
:)
Hi, Qiuling!
How are you! Any gardening tips??
I tried to grow lettuce, but it was almost eaten by slugs :)
cheers everyone!
我也有自己的GARDEN，種菜種花。
“talking to my own flowers”前幾天才對朋友說：有時候覺得跟植物打交道比跟人容易。
“let me die by my flowers”
大家好！
“性”-“Nature”
無嬌柔裝束之態，喜歡！！！
:)
什麽叫“偉大”？
什麽叫“平凡”？
炒作出來的“偉大”就是“婊子”的貞潔牌坊！
英文對人性的“性”對應得很好，就是“Nature。”
人自然了，人性就會顯得真實了。
人類科學再發達，飛得再高再遠再快，你也無法改變“老天爺”的脾氣秉性，該下雨時就下雨，該刮風時就刮風！
謝謝各位的閱讀！！
tears, 是新朋友嘍：）問好！！
為何叫"tears"? :)
聽說流淚對人體內分泌有好處，是嗎？［道聽途說來的］
“...die for a woman of your own kind”
都是人性，可以理解，不足為奇…… :)
Gardening... very nice!
GARDENING意味著LOVING，CARING。。。
“let me die by my flowers” 另我想起你的另一首詩歌，A WOMEN OF YOUR OWN
KIND。
很緊湊的文字，一條“線”貫穿詩歌，但詩歌很有層次：)
a name need meaning....but many english flower names have very narrow denotation....so, the biblical names have been used till today....
but there are some girls have names like "jasmine, lily," etc...
A lot of Chinese girls named after flowers, such as 花， 梅， 蘭，菊, or their gragrance, such as 芳，香，馨..
sorry i cleared your post....what a coincidence!
i was changing the first pic---it was too BIG:)
yes, the simpleness of the old gardener stayed in my mind....and he was soooo happy!!
those are flowers' names....many English names for flowers come from mythology... some are named like what we name flowers in chinese...
flowers' names are very beautiful themselves....
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My comment was: A loving heart can't be measured by what is his position or how much money or profit he can make. Usually a loving person is a somple person, someone close to Earth. He/she can truelly appreciate and create the beauty in a humble world.
btw. I caught several words that I don't know. "Celosia", Petunia", "Dianthus" and "Marigold". Are they the name of the flowers? I am wondering how a flower got its name in the first place?