Wildflowers

There is wild blue phlox
rue anemone
shooting star and sweet Betsy
yellow trout lily and oak-leaf hydrangea

For the sake of being
there is a flower
beautiful, delicate, drawing pollinators
developing seeds

For the sake of being
there is patience 
waiting for spring rains 
and warming days

For the sake of being
there is germination
and there is growth
reaching skyward toward the Sun

For the sake of being
there is a flower

8 thoughts on “Wildflowers”

    1. Thanks, Diane. The flower names are beautiful and I agree: they are poetry in and of themselves! I have to admit that I wanted to make sure I had the science right on this one. A science lesson wasn’t my goal, but it was in the back of my mind!

      Like

      Reply

  2. I Googled these flowers and looked at pictures of each one. They’re all so beautiful! Lovely poem. And I agree with Diane that the names are poetry all by themselves! Ruth, thereisnosuchthingasagodforsakentown.blogspot.com

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Google photo

You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s