Photo and poem by Mel Brake
Coeur de Marie is French for Mary’s Heart. We spotted this plant while walking in the rain. The Bleeding Heart plant is named Mary’s Flower and how fitting for the month of May.
The Bleeding Heart plant is used for magical spells to do with love.
Never bring a bleeding heart plant indoors because it can bring the opposite of love or negative energy.
Mary’s Eyes
Sometimes
I wish
Mary could open
Her eyes
To see how
Beautiful she
Looks
In the day
She gets
Ready for
Work
In the dark
Catches
At least
2 or 3 buses
To make
A poetry
Reading
The bus
Driver
Drove
Three blocks
Past her
Stop
But Mary
Does not
Complain
She apologies
For not
Making the reading
Earlier
She walks
And bumps
Into people
Politely
She confides
In me that
She does not
Do too well
At readings
But I say
How is the audience
To know the
Difference
Because they don’t
Read Braille
Mary is not
Christ’s Mother
Whose
Picture sits
On my altar
But I shouldn’t
Wonder
Why Mary’s eyes
Are closed
When her vision
Of me
Is so beautiful
melbrake 