Lee Degnan - Chrysanthemum

'You know, Mom... you could write
a poem about chrysanthemums..
I like chrysanthemums.'

Not a single word
in the English language
rhymes with that word

but I think that
this was not my daughter's,
my little flower's, concern

that in her remarkably
perceptive mind, on the surface,
seemingly random, thinking

she's actually telling me
that I think too much,
and I should just stop to smell the...

well... the chrysanthemums, of course.


(Thank you, Lauren Marie-9/8/07-Ok, I realize now, thanks to my husband, that there are more than a FEW words that rhyme with 'chrysanthemum'... but they were just not very useful! !)

Lee Degnan

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/chrysanthemum-3/