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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.
:))
今年天热，虫很多。
人是什么样的人，还需要论证么？
No, no no!!!
:)
Can't stand looooooooooooooong theories :)
人是什么样的人，还需要论证么？又不是写议论文：)
thank you for the definition: [现代汉语“平凡”：平常；不稀奇]
What about “伟大”？
:)
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，种菜种花。
“talking to my own flowers”前几天才对朋友说：有时候觉得跟植物打交道比跟人容易。
“let me die by my flowers”
大家好！
“性”-“Nature”
无娇柔装束之态，喜欢！！！
:)
什么叫“伟大”？
什么叫“平凡”？
炒作出来的“伟大”就是“婊子”的贞洁牌坊！
英文对人性的“性”对应得很好，就是“Nature。”
人自然了，人性就会显得真实了。
人类科学再发达，飞得再高再远再快，你也无法改变“老天爷”的脾气秉性，该下雨时就下雨，该刮风时就刮风！
谢谢各位的阅读！！
tears, 是新朋友喽：）问好！！
为何叫"tears"? :)
听说流泪对人体内分泌有好处，是吗？［道听途说来的］
“...die for a woman of your own kind”
都是人性，可以理解，不足为奇…… :)
Gardening... very nice!
GARDENING意味着LOVING，CARING。。。
“let me die by my flowers” 另我想起你的另一首诗歌，A WOMEN OF YOUR OWN
KIND。
很紧凑的文字，一条“线”贯穿诗歌，但诗歌很有层次：)
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， 兰，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?