Thanks to Flowers by Kate Farrell
Not only the cultivated ones in parks
and gardens, unfolding immaculate petals
on a terrace or trellis, and not just
the wild ones, kissed by elegant birds
in jungle foliage, or brightening roadsides
and meadows, blossoming anyplace that anything
can blossom, but thanks also to flowers
blooming in paintings, on carpets, pottery,
fabrics of dresses and draperies or wherever
the real or invented colors and shapes
of flowers lift the mood of a scene,
as they are snipped from bushes, gathered
in cordless bunches, tied in ribbons
or arranged in rare bouquets for precious vases.
Perfect by nature for gift and centerpiece,
they perfume ballrooms, backyards and prairies,
and, indoors or out the window, they gladden
celebrations and refresh every country
and season, for, even in iciest winter.
The word flower thrives in every language,
adorning what everyone says and imagines
with the beautiful thought of flowers
which teach by timeless example
that life goes by anyway; you might as well
flower.
Playlist
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Bringing You a Rose by Lewis Baloue on Romantic Times (℗ 2014 Light In The Attic Records) -
She Buys Herself Flowers by The Umbrellas on The Umbrellas (℗ 2021 Slumberland Records LLC) Local -
Daisy by atmos bloom on Flora (℗ 2022 Spirit Goth Records) -
Sunflower by Nabihah Iqbal on DREAMER (℗ 2023 Ninja Tune) New -
Language of Flowers by Pale Saints on The Comforts of Madness (℗ 1990 4AD Ltd) -
Perennial Bloom by Green-House on Six Songs for Invisible Gardens - EP (℗ 2020 Leaving Records) -
Little Sunflower by Dorothy Ashby on Afro-Harping (℗ 1968 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.) -
You Are My Sunshine by Etta James on Call My Name (A Geffen Records Release; ℗ 1966 UMG Recordings, Inc.) -
Where Have All the Flowers Gone? (Acoustic Version) by Yellow Magic Orchestra on YMO Go Home! (℗ 1978(3),1979(12),1980(1,2,4,13),1981(5-7),1983(8-10),1999(11)Alfa Music, Inc./(P) 1978(9,13),1979(2-4),1980(1,7),1981(5,6,8),1983(10),1992(11),1999(12)Alfa Music, Inc.) -
High On Roses by Crystal Glass on High On Roses - Single (℗ 2022 Duchess Box Records) -
Bees by Pete Jolly on Seasons (This Compilation ℗ 2010 A&M Records) -
Plants Singing by Punko on Plants Singing (℗ 2022 Dinosaur City Records) -
Paper Flowers by Stephen Steinbrink on I Drew a Picture (℗ 2012 Melodic) Local -
Bloom At Night by LUMP, Laura Marling & Mike Lindsay on Animal (℗ 2021 Chrysalis Records Limited in partnership with Partisan Records) -
All Flowers in Time by Gloria de Oliveira & Dean Hurley on Oceans of Time (℗ 2022 Gloria De Oliveira & Dean Hurley under exclusive license to Sacred Bones Records) -
Planting Seeds by Some Ember on Debts of Love - EP (℗ 2015 Dream) -
Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band, or soprano sax, electronic keyboard & tape delay by Terry Riley on Riley: A Rainbow in Curved Air, Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band (℗ Originally released 1969 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.)