Alice Walker
The Nature of This Flower Is to Bloom
Rebellious. Living.
Against the Elemental Crush.
A Song of Color
Blooming
For Deserving Eyes.
Blooming Gloriously
For its Self.
Revolutionary Petunia.
[from: THE SWEET BREATHING OF PLANTS, Women Writing on the Green World, Edited by Linda Hogan and Brenda Peterson, North Point Press, 2001]
Love the poem! Always looking for ways to talk about flowers and she did it perfectly.
Lovely photo and verse. Looks so summery.
The Whole is larger than a sum-of-the-Parts——-in flowers as in humans, Thats what makes flowers and humans attractive!!. Cheers, Phil Hansotia.