The Lonely Bush on the Highway (Insight)

The Lonely Bush on the Highway is based on an actual bush on the highway. Every day on my way to work, I saw this dead, dried up bush It wasn’t anything special and yet I still felt inspired to write about it. A lot of times when I start writing a poem or short story, I don’t have a specific rhyme scheme or exact idea of how I am going to write it. I just let my thoughts guide me and after I created that first line, “Clinging to the cracked cement divider”, I knew I wanted to focus on alliteration for this poem. In a lot of ways, this poem reminds me of the opposite of a short comic created by Beetle Moses. In it, you see a beached angler fish, dying, but still in awe of the beauty it sees on land. It’s implied that the fish believes it’s worth it, proclaiming “I might have never known”. This bush on the other hand, fought so hard to persevere, it grew through solid asphalt, breathing in smog and pollution, surrounded by garbage. Just to be a part of an industrialized landscape with no mercy, no beauty on the other side. Sometimes life can be so brutal and unforgiving. I hope you enjoy reading The Lonely Bush on the Highway by Daniel Peiffer.