A lovely
lonesome lily
Your appearance
from the side
Come
do turn
and face me now
Whatever have you
to hide?
Draw closer
I beseech thee
Upon your petals
I’ll gaze
Let not
this timidity
Hide your pretty
winsome ways
Come closer
my dear lily
Your anthers
fully displayed
Fearful
is not becoming
Let faith’s freedom
have its sway
Play your music
before me
Newborn notes
drawing great crowds
Singing
so melancholy
Squeezing tear drops
from the clouds
Let love leadeth
lost petals
Languished lily heart
forlorn
Banished
but not forgotten
Spring awakens you
reborn!
Wendy/2012
I heard, through open windows, my daughter’s piano lesson as I wrote poetry in my van. I asked her how the lesson went, and she said that she has learned some sad, but pretty, music today. It appears that this poem was written under the influence of “Weeping Willow” and a couple of other sad, but beautiful songs.
I love happy endings – even if the journey takes me through some melancholy meadows to get there.
Reborn ~ Wendy
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For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. For,
“All men are like grass,
and all their glory is like the
flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall,
but the word of the Lord stands
forever.”
And this was the word that was preached to you.
1 Peter 1: 23-25
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I like all of the colors 🙂
Thank you!
Blessings ~ Wendy
Lots of emotion in this post – I feel it! Beautiful…
Thank you! I almost missed taking a photo of this lily. My husband was barbecuing and I had just finished the kitchen work and felt a nudge to hang out with him, outside. Then I saw the opened lily and grabbed my camera. The next morning it was bedraggled… I wonder how many moments I miss, when I don’t heed the call? It was nice to just hang out without feeling the need to be “doing” something. Mary is still teaching Martha!
Blessings ~ Wendy
Bring it on, Mary! 🙂
Beautiful and emotional, Wendy!
Thank you! Music evokes intensity…
Blessings ~ Wendy
Wow, Wow, and Wow, Wendy–gorgeous flower, and poem. I, too, have found that writing poetry to music is very effective. Years ago, I wrote half a jillion to the Windham Hill artists–lots of lovely piano work there. God bless you abundantly–and have a great weekend! love, sis Caddo
Great idea, Caddo! That explains why a poem I worked on last night, while the family was watching a thriller movie, turned out rather dramatic! I prefer music in the background.
Blessings to you this weekend ~ Wendy
The pictures are beautiful and the words even more so.
Thank you! Because I only have one little clump of this lily; I don’t take it for granted. There is only one of each of us too…
Blessings ~ Wendy
Fabulous images!
Thank you! I really look forward to seeing it bloom again this year…
Blessings dear friend ~ Wendy 🙂