To my darling daughter and her lucky groom. May life’s blossoms ever bloom.
LAVENDER
My lavender has gone to seed:
soft blue blossoms
to brown scratchy scales;
perfume to dust.
You wanted
branches of blue blossoms
for your bridal bouquet.
But they won’t do,
I am sorry to say:
they simply will not do!
Trim the branches back,
you said patiently,
and we will see.
We still have a month,
and they may bloom again,
yet, blue and fragrant.
I trimmed,
I hope,
enough.
Roger is the author of Rabbit Lane: Memoir of a Country Road. The book tells the true life story of an obscure and magical farm road and its power to transform the human spirit. The book is available in print and for Kindle at Amazon. See Rabbit Lane reviewed in Words and Pictures.
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That lavender will bloom, Roger, you’ll see. I like your daughter’s faith.
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She is a wonderful girl, getting married later this month.
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I love your poems, Roger! You taught me what poems are on your visit here. I never understood until your very simple explanation explained it so well. Congratulations on your daughter’s upcoming wedding. I’m sure it will be lovely. A new era begins.
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Thank you so much, Mary. I’m glad you enjoyed my poem, and I’m glad I could make poetry more accessible to you. I look forward to our next visit.
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