When purple petals show <br />speckled black and yellow, <br />a small modest lily spread <br />lovely vivid colours <br />blooming for many hours <br />as she opens her bright head <br />and as time passes by <br />she draws the human eye <br />before she withers, are dead.<br /><br />Gert Strydom<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/when-purple-petals-show-balassi-stanza/
