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So I’ve got clippings from ivy
and I never had much luck
with other plants, and my
and my mom kept the ivy
and her ivy in the window sill
I water it daily, not knowing
but I just noticed, while checking
that one larger plat in a pot
along the plant, to shake off
mom put a sprig of my
there
so maybe, like my ivy at home,
its space with another plant
maybe there is hope for things
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Doesn’t Like Being Alone
Janet Kuypers, 09/12/06 #1
from my wedding bouquet
that my mother kept alive
with keeping the ivy alive
so my two pots of ivy are shared
ivy seems contest to
share its space with others
thriving, but once she got sick
she couldn’t take care of it
pot is pretty much dead now
like mom
what else I can do
to resurrect my wedding ivy
her other potted plants
in their driveway
seems to be losing leaves
so I started running my hand
any dying leaves all at once
and that’s when I saw it:
wedding ivy into that plant too
and it was thriving beautifully
when mom’s not there,
maybe it needs to share
to thrive, maybe, just maybe,
it doesn’t like being alone
maybe things will turn out okay
as long as you look hard enough
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