This is the second year of the Fall Writing Frenzy hosted by Kaitlyn Sanchez and Lydia Lukidis. My entry was inspired by a cumulative poem by Nicola Davies, “The Loaf That Jack Baked,” in Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature and this image:
The Flower That Grew in My Garden
by Rose Cappelli
This is the flower, wild and free,
that grew in my garden.
This is the bee, all fuzzy and buzzy,
that carried the spores
to the flower that grew in my garden.
This is the blossom, yellow and full,
that beckoned the bee
to the flower that grew in my garden.
This is the bud, as green as a pea,
that fashioned the blossom
that beckoned the bee
to the flower that grew in my garden.
This is the shoot, with heart-shaped leaves,
that produced the bud
that fashioned the blossom
that beckoned the bee
to the flower that grew in my garden.
This is the seed, so striped and ripe,
that sprouted the shoot
that produced the bud
that fashioned the blossom
that beckoned the bee
to the flower that grew in my garden.
This is the dog with the fur, dark and dense,
that shimmied and shook and scattered the seed
that sprouted the shoot
that produced the bud
that fashioned the blossom
that beckoned the bee
to the flower that grew…
Wild and free!
