Queen of Blooms

The world laughs in flowers. - Thoreau

secretly from afar

in a timeless corolla of recherché

a petaled profusion of prominading patience

crowned in a pampered polaris of panoramas

spread open in a royal grove of trumpeting jacoranda panicles

minions of leaves and branches kneeling at a throned liege

a monarchy of bloom beckoning

i knew right then

in all your inflorescent splendor

i had to have you

Author's Note

"Where the most beautiful wild flowers grow, there mans spirit is fed and poets grow." - Thoreau

Reviews

[barleygirl]

You have truly taken wordplay on a trapeze ride here! Wow! Instead of seeing the intended message of the poetry, I found that I was instead seeing your passion play for vocabulary. Sometimes a flower blossom is just too rich & complex for words, so I understand having to take it to the stratosphere (((HUGS)))

[Pete]

when something is so beautiful and spectacular you must reach beyond the ordinary for words to describe. daring to use such words without a net ... :)

[barleygirl]

Your cleverness knows no bounds . . .

[Pete]

nor my stupidity ... :)

[Chris Shaw]

Simply splendid with a masterclass in alliteration. I love flowers and my garden in summer is bursting with blooms of all colours. However, there is something so special about flowers growing wild. I will never forget Switzerland is springtime. Meadows sprawled before mountains littered with beautiful petalled delight. Thank you for the memory.

Chris

[Pete]

flowers brighten any landscape. where would we be without their quiet beauty? i know you love them. thanks chris ... :)

[Fabian G. Franklin]

My, this an alliteration lover's feast. I enjoyed the read. I'm a big fan of Thoreau and Emerson. I read Walden to my mother near the end of her life sitting by her bedside. She was a wise woman with an eighth grade education. I asked what she thought of it afterwards. She said, "I liked his words. He seemed like a man who truly loved nature." Even Thoreau would have been pleased by such a review. "Simplify, simplify."

[Pete]

thank you. thoreau treasured and adored nature. i relate strongly with the transcendentalists. used to live near concord - have been in emerson's mansion and walden pond. what a novel idea - reading walden to your mum. thoreau's words have made their mark and live inside of me ... :)

[Fabian G. Franklin]

I can very much identify with the transcendentalists. Everything in life is a lesson if we are mentally adroit enough to capture it.