BONSAI

Bonsai

Edith Tiempo

All that I love

I fold over once

And once again

And keep in a box

Or a slit in a hollow post

Or in my shoe.

All that I love?

Why, yes, but for the moment-

And for all time, both.

Something that folds and keeps easy,

Son’s note or Dad’s one gaudy tie,

A roto picture of a queen,

A blue Indian shawl, even

A money bill.

It’s utter sublimation,

A feat, this heart’s control

Moment to moment

To scale all love down

To a cupped hand’s size

Till seashells are broken pieces

From God’s own bright teeth,

And life and love are real

Things you can run and

Breathless hand over

To the merest child.

Bonsai

                                                                                    GROUP ANALIZATION

From the poem entitled Bonsai, by Edith L. Tiempo the author wants to take mini things for souvenir and to have some remembrance. She likes keeping things that are very important for her. Her miniature things like photos or other memorabe things has been kept even though it is a small thing as long as those things are meaningful and worthy to be kept for.

Her love for mini things has been treasured. She kept it over to any place but she knew in herself that no other place is more secure but only in her heart  and to herself that the desire for mini things she seek for can be enclose by her own and the author said that she is gonna keep all the love for her miniature things im herself because that is what she desires.

The author said that the things that are important and has too much value for her must be kept for the memories of everything that she adore is to be cherished always.

The author also shows how much she love miniature objects and that she is gonna keep all those because those things are the ones that gives her joy and happiness.