Wrote this awhile back and JAPOV did a great version of it...slower but here is my take




Curiously Witty Irises
©2023 John Voorpostel

There’s an edge to full redemption
Little nudges take me there
In a garden full of Edens
How can such a thing be fair
When
Curiously witty irises
Shout from ordered terraces
Gracing every day with flowering words
Mostly they just show I am
In that they’re just like any man
Though exceptional as coloured connoisseurs


We all jockey for position
Don’t need a reason just a ruse
What’s the worst thing that can happen
Everyone gets an excuse
And then
The bottom totally drops out of things
No one’s thinking about terracing
Lot of shouting out a lot of words
Sometimes there’s more show than tell
Push and shove on a carousel
See them go those jousting connoisseurs


Can you answer in a way I can't explain
What matters more than Eden in the rain?


I think I had her full attention
Iris anthers bursting tall
In a garden full of Edens
It wouldn’t matter at all
Until
Graciously coloured she accepts
Me well adorned with manners
Think she hears my every spoken word
Because I say it like it is
I love the way you look and live
Argent lemon violet connoisseur


If writing ever becomes work I think I'm going to have to stop