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    Watering the Marigolds
    Watering the Marigolds
    Watering the Marigolds
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    Watering the Marigolds

    By Muriel Bergel

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    'Poetry has the ability to cover a lot of ground in a few lines, and Muriel Bergel's book deals with so many questions and conundrums. In these pages we find goddesses, dreams, music, mothers and even ugg boots. Mythology and the everyday are combined to great effect. This is a remarkably poised first collection, inviting us to travel with the p

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDebbie Lee
    Release dateOct 4, 2023
    ISBN9781761096198
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      Watering the Marigolds - Muriel Bergel

      Watering the Marigolds

      WATERING THE MARIGOLDS

      MURIEL BERGEL

      Ginninderra Press

      Watering the Marigolds

      ISBN 978 1 76109 619 8

      Copyright © text Muriel Bergel 2023

      Cover image: Imran Arif

      All rights reserved. No part of this ebook may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the copyright holder. Requests for permission should be sent to the publisher at the address below.

      First published 2023 by

      Ginninderra Press

      PO Box 3461 Port Adelaide 5015

      www.ginninderrapress.com.au

      CONTENTS

      Watering the Marigolds

      WATERING THE MARIGOLDS

      kintsugi

      an object

      desired

      judged

      you want to touch it

      have it

      make it yours

      scared to hold it

      it’s too fragile

      what if it breaks

      but it’s already broken

      imperfect

      flawed

      pieced back together with gold

      do you still want it

      dappled beauty

      reflecting what’s inside

      I see now

      it’s already mine

      (Kintsugi is the Japanese art of putting broken pottery pieces back together with gold, the idea being that by embracing its flaws and imperfections, it becomes

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