Gathering Flowers in Poems
This month’s theme at Tweetspeak and Every Day Poems is Gathering Flowers, Planting Seeds. It’s the perfect time of year to bring flowers into your space! We encourage you to do so, to make your days lovely.
Poems are also places where we can gather flowers and plant seeds. There are no limits to what we can gather, since poems transcend our geography. Try it?
Poetry Prompt: Gathering Flowers, Planting Seeds
Write a poem that…
• gathers a particular flower, or
• plants a particular seed, or
• puts several unexpected flowers together, or
• uses The Language of Flowers as a source to create a found poem
Sample Poem
Our sample poem is from Beyond the Glass. It’s a simple gathering. Or, perhaps, a wish.
would
that you’d
give me
a white lily
all memory
no desire
its whole face true
its dark pollen
without stain
across
what’s past
beyond
what’s lost
—l.l. barkat
Photo by Rodion Kutsaiev, Creative Commons, via Unsplash.
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Glynn says
Gathering
A single plant,
a native, no less,
officially Monarda
but usually called
bee balm, for a reason.
It gathers bees.
A single plant that
doesn’t stay put;
it seeds and multiplies
and spreads treasure,
a sea of purple crowns
turning the garden
into a explosion of
buzzing, hovering,
flapping, pollen-
covered bees,
a convention
of pollinators,
honey bees, bumble
bees, little bees,
and tinier bees
who consider
the garden
a personal vase.