What do Wildflowers Know?
1-What do wildflowers know that carefully cultivated and tended flowers don’t?
2-Cultivated flowers are trained, pruned, and arranged
write a villanelle
Try one or both.
By More Than Poetry
We walked the fence, my father and I
sought torn wire
and fallen posts from harsh
winter snows and biting winds.
My feet lost in oversized Tingley’s.
My blond braids schtruwwlich
from outrunning night fears.
On that Spring morn,
air cleansed, birdsong permeated
my young soul, and dew baptized
Earth under Sun’s descending rays.
Along sagging fence,
where wood weeps gray,
filigreed Queen Anne’s lace intertwined
quiet blue cornflowers
and gleaming golden buttercups.
Here, beauty needed no permission.
Deeply rooted in struggle,
no applause, no medals,
they bloomed in feral and fierce grace.
Asked nothing of me.
Joy need not be earned.
But I plucked only a few to admire,
for my father explained
how each, steeped into teas
and poultices, hemmed out pain.
So, I sat at the edges,
bent low to hear
wildflowers hum
ancient hymns
of covenant mysteries
about what is planted
and what life insists.
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Dorie and friend, this is absolutely enchanting! Your writing is as gentle and resilient as the very wildflowers you write about.
You have such a beautiful eye for noticing the quietness in nature and translating it into a soothing balm for the soul. It is a stunning, breezy reminder to trust our own seasons, bloom where we are, and lean into the wild. This completely brightened my day! 🌸