When forlorn flow'rs your green thumb'd find, <br />Their blossoms would forever bind <br />Memories and love of which we share- <br />Your lovingkindness ne'er once threadbare. <br />Nodding flowers genuflect in the wind <br />And garden crops soon gathered in <br />Expressed that love you'd harvest well. <br />It never was too hard to tell <br />You preferred your world in flowery hues... <br />That's what I know when I think of you. <br />God nurtured you just like garden flowers; <br />Heaven still sends those needful showers. <br />The Lord knew best when He called you Home; <br />He stopped your lifelong metronome. <br />Yet flow'ry salutations in efflorescence <br />Find harmonious growth so effervescent- <br />You loved me first; I loved you back. <br />Sweet pangs of love have left their track. <br />Each marigold, chrysanthemum, each daisied hue <br />Makes 'grandmother' a blissful word because of you.<br /><br />Ryan John Payne<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/efflorescence-my-paternal-grandmother/
