Flowers have uncountable ways of pretending to be <br />Not solid, but moonlight or sunlight or starlight with scent. <br />Primroses strive for the colour of sunshine on lawns <br />Dew-besprent. <br />Freesias are flames wherein light more than heat is desired, <br />As candles on altars burn amethyst, golden and white. <br />Wall-flowers are sun streaked with shade. Periwinkles blue noon <br />At the height.<br /><br />Lesbia Harford<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/flowers-and-light/
