<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460706" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0243 The Second Coming</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This first August week, the geraniums<br>are flowering their second flush: <br>they braved last winter, huddled like cabbage stalks<br>so as to be inconspicuous<br>to the meddlesome and sterile fingers of frost, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">then burst into abundant life, as did the pelargoniums, <br>with a blatant generosity or hymn of praise as if<br>to prove some point we'd overlooked<br>about Creation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Last week, dead-headed like a battlefield, <br>they fell back into themselves, exhausted, <br>as if they wanted a long summer holiday, <br>to last right through to autumn's fall; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">only, this week, to bear a second coming: <br>yet changed: their petals paler, exquisite, <br>water-coloured like shells fresh from the waves, <br>or the most delicate painted porcelain or<br>Japanese flowers brushed on silk; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">as if God had fallen in love with His own Creation, <br>seeing it good; and then<br>repainted it with second, subtler coat; <br>and given to the geraniums<br>a second chance to remind us of the love<br>we missed the first time round.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460706" data-title="0243 The Second Coming de Michael Shepherd" data-description="This first August week, the geraniums are flowering their second flush: they braved last winter, huddled like cabbage stalks so as to be inconspicuous to the meddlesome and sterile fingers of frost, then burst into abundant life, as did the pel..."></div> </div> </div>

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