Saturday, May 25, 2013

Fortune telling



He loves me not, or does he?
I asked a daisy to keep the score
from signs her yellow eye could see.
But should I trust in flower lore
to read his heart and show his mind?
How many plucks will it take
To secure the answer I wish to find
And by their death reveal my fate?
Counting petals in poetic time,
Lying in a heap like snow.
In this, no reason and no rhyme.
Oh tell me, what does a daisy know?


Saturday, May 4, 2013

A different kind of fire

Rooted she is to the ground.
Against her will she is bound.
Still her spirit runs wild and free,
No shear to tame twig and leaf.
For ten months ragged and worn
But every Spring, fire reborn.