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title: "My mom shared this poem with me written by my great great aunt; a…"
description: "My mom shared this poem with me written by my great great aunt; a love of plants and flowers runs in the family 💚 To a Maidenhair Fern Far from the drip, drip…"
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# My mom shared this poem with me written by my great great aunt; a…

_Whit\_Y님이 2026-03-04에 게시함_

My mom shared this poem with me written by my great great aunt; a love of plants and flowers runs in the family 💚

To a Maidenhair Fern

Far from the drip, drip of spring water  
Seeping into the mat of leaf mold about your feet,  
Do you resent the lapse of years  
Since you green in lush mosaic  
Against the cold grey stones of old St. Augustine?

I found you there, my maidenhair, at Fort Marian  
I love you; brought you captive to the North.  
You grow for me in the light of my bay window  
Light mellowed by sheer curtains  
Gives a translucence to your scalloped leaves,  
which hand on fragile, ebony stems.

You live in a (unreadable) I  
give you cool drinks, you love them.  
It reminds you of the springs in your early  
Florida home.  
You love damp leaf mold too,  
In which your roots mat and sent up tiny fiddlebows  
which unfold into tender (unreadable) of green.

You love one opal immmoveable  
So you may spread out your lacy leaves.

You resent caresses  
I know all your eccentrenticies, my maiden-hair,  
We have been lovers so long  
You have been with me in happiness; in tears.  
I have torn and divided you; given you to strangers and friends.  
But neglected you - never!  
I would not like life apart from you.

W.M. P. ‘50

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