Posting late today. I just returned from a trip to New York to babysit my grandkids. Although I was kept very busy with reading, coloring, swinging, and building, I did manage to keep up with my flower poem project. Here are two from this past week.
Queen Anne’s Lace
Some call it a weed,
an invader, a pest
banished from the garden.
But that delicate cluster of blooms
reminds me of lace,
and doesn’t a queen know best?
So I’ll let it grow wild
by the back yard fence
as long as I am able.
Then cut and arrange it
in a cobalt vase
for gracing my dining room table.
Draft, 2022 Rose Cappelli
In Spring
tulip
bulbs buried deep
poke through winter white
stitch a patchwork quilt of color
in spring
Draft, 2022 Rose Cappelli
Margaret has the round up today at Reflections on the Teche.
Imagine the Possibilities 
Love the last line of that first stanza, “Doesn’t a queen know best?” Tulips as a patchwork quilt of color is the perfect metaphor. I need to go back and catch up on your other flower poems!
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Thanks, Leigh Anne. I write a new poem everyday but only post a few on Friday. My April project is flowers A-Z
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Oh, Rose, I love your flower poems. What joy to be with your grandchildren, reading, coloring, swinging, and building, and also writing flower poetry. I love the idea of Queen Ann’s Lace in a cobalt vase.
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I love “grow wild/by the back yard fence” – it feels like the bit of rebelliousness a queen’s weed might need 🙂
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Weed or not, I like the look of Queen Anne’s lace – near a fence AND and in a cobalt vase. 🙂
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I used to love going out into fields to find Queen Anne’s Lace, but it isn’t in the city. Love the tulip time, would love to see that ‘patchwork’. Thanks, Rose
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Rose, I love the delicacy of Queen Anne Lace and want to plant it in my garden that gets sun all afternoon. I am not sure if it will grow there. The soil is thick with clay. What do you think? When reading the poem, I was taken back to the show Bridgerton and the royalty attributed to this flower. Do you have an image poem or poem and photo that I can add to my Poetryliscious Gallery this month?
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I have to admit that while I love flowers, I don’t know a great deal about many of them, but this project has helped me learn. Thank you for asking for a submission to your gallery. I’ll send you something.
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