Wednesday, 26 September 2018

BOTANY




The flower when picked is too often depetalled
  To find the fickle luck end of lust,
    But some go so far as to rend unto element -
      To cut ovules and anthers, and count pollen dust.

The educated are shy to even touch the bloom,
  But cup it from behind to admire with eye.
    They study the whole: the parts, the scent
      And it gives to these without having to die.

But worse than the killer and far from the noble gazer
  Are those that never seek the glorious flower.
    The poem in creation, ignored and passed
      When the fool thinks seen the beauty of the hour ...

Smell the roses.

Copyright © Jason Horsler
04/06/96

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