Visiting Hour

[Delta40]

While you work out the algorithms
of a single weed
pushing its way through
the cracked concrete,
I will stretch my arms
around you
till I can tie them in a bow.
We can rattle off,
I'd like to teach the world
to sing
in perfect harmony
Perhaps,
just perhaps
the rest of the garden
will waken
from its catatonic state.

[cafolini]

Good one, Delta.

[MystyrMystyry]

This has particularly Delta-esque-ness-essence. One of your best Delts! :)

[ShadowsCool]

I like this Delta cause I can relate to both picking those weeds from the cracks of the pavement, and seeing someone hugging me, and hearing that song; while everything else changes for the better. <I know, run on sentence.

[MorpheusSandman]

This feels like a closet spring poem ("Every poet should write at least one poem about spring," as the saying goes). It's handled with your usual light touch, and I do like it, but I'm not sure about the opening: "work out the algorithms..." sounds like an awfully technical way to describe what's happening... I initially thought this was going to be a poem contrasting the intellectual with the emotional, science with nature, ala Whitman's "When I heard the learn'd astronomer". But as it progressed it didn't really seem to build on that idea, so I'm wondering if I'm missing something about that opening...

I will say I got a chuckle out of the reference to the classic coca-cola commercial song!

[aliengirl]

A pleasant read on a hot summer afternoon. :)

[cogs]

i related it to a 'mental home' garden, where, perhaps a savant sees more information in a weed's entrapment than us. also, the other boarders could be 'catatonic' ('cracked'). i haven't yet worked out how the bow would fit into this metaphor, other than just the gift of a loving hug. is this close, or just me 'rattling off'?

[Delta40]

i related it to a 'mental home' garden, where, perhaps a savant sees more information in a weed's entrapment than us. also, the other boarders could be 'catatonic' ('cracked'). i haven't yet worked out how the bow would fit into this metaphor, other than just the gift of a loving hug. is this close, or just me 'rattling off'?

No Cogs, you're pretty much spot on.