Category: flowers

and so, what does make a home

May 25, 2025

and can we make one anywhere?
and what about belonging,

do blades of grass belong?
taken for granted and stepped on,

and what about the daisies,
ripped up and made into chains?

does a tree ever dream
of forests far away?

is the hermit grab grateful
for no fixed address?

and is the swift yearning to land,
and crying for rest?

is the mountain growing to see
what lies beyond the seas?

and so, what does make a home,
and can we make one anywhere?

poem 2.1

July 3, 2023

a billion to one

we travel through billions of molecules everyday
that gather on either side of us,
and sometimes it is hard
to see the beauty through the endlessly mundane.
flowers floating in sewage water.
it’s about looking at the road
from a different perspective.
there is a reason that the path you chose
is less traveled.
it’s dirty and difficult and confusing.
anyone can be content,
even happy,
if you choose to seek adventure.
in every person there is a hero;
in every task there is a quest.
it’s a billion to one
that you’re even here.
what are the chances of your mother
meeting you father?
what were the odds
that they would fall in love?
we are all artists
waiting to paint.

poem #19

February 14, 2021

valentine

i found a vase
with a flower
i could not 
keep alive.
i watered it
with falling tears,
it still wilted
and cried.
i sunned it 
with fake smiles,
the petals continued
to fall.
i placed it on
the windowsill
so it might
see outside.
but still the
colour faded,
my flower did
slowly die.

poem #16

January 24, 2021

the roses we find

such a delicate flower
he held in his hand,
the petals he crushed
as if to take stand.
their fragrance was sweet
and felt like a cry;
so gentle and vulnerable,
the roses we find.

do flowers have spirits,
perhaps even a soul?
nobody has asked this
when cutting them all.
who are we to assume,
as arrogant as we are,
that we alone have feelings
when we destroy and command.