Papaver Somniferum Laurens-Grape

This is the most distinguished opium poppy. Its stiff stems carry several deep plum-purple flowers with tissue-paper petals, bursting from tightly-packed buds unfurl.

Her amethyst proclaims her once desire,
To fear the fountain of fine youth, lonely..,

Puce has been lost to the deity sapphire,
It's daunting and jejune, beset from free.

Auspice, more lackadaisical than most,
A timid shy askew, a prince there looms

The silk to many kingdoms he will boast,
Beauty, milk and honey, queen of blooms.