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OK, so you were perhaps inspired by Monet's Water Lilies series? I think if you're attempting impressionism you might consider that making your poem one long run-on sentence creates a problem. And if you want the reader to "view the words from different 'angles' or depths, [and have] the meaning might change", you definitely need to break this up. The linear sentence keeps this FROM impressionism. I'm not going to suggest specific rewriting, but I'd like to demonstrate the writing technique by using your images:

Lavendar water lilies,
silent, still,
wait             wait
fragile petals
droop
melancholy words
morning dove
lonely
silver mist
lingering kiss
(etc.)

Again, I'm not suggesting this particular rewriting, only the style. Some writers would put in less punctuation, and some use more. You can add back in some of the words I omitted, or add in new ones. I'm just suggesting the technique. Fewer verbs, more things, and adjectives, etc. And if you want to get into what is happening below the surface, go below the surface. If not, that's OK too. This is far from hopeless. It's a good theme.

Alcuin

by Alcuin of York on Aug. 10 2007