Wherever They Darn Well Please

Where the most beautiful wild flowers grow, there mans spirit is fed and poets grow. - Thoreau

orchids baffling

snapdragons snaffling

larkspur laughing

red hot pokers staffing

buttercups spread freshly, churned joy and gladness over the rolling hills

echinacea providing even more thrills

tiger lilies roaring the laughter of their striped approval

wisteria climbing with a royal, embellishing bamboozle

lavender and jasmine perfuming and infusing with a dab 'hind each ear

daffodils raising a cup of good cheer

tulips screwed in their bulbs with the variety of wattages in different hues

chrysanthemums and money trees bringing nothing but good news

daffodils bobbed their heads to the music of an impending spring

begotten begonias toting their sepals of everything

birds of paradise soared

zinnias growing anything but bored

ghost flowers provided their chills

sunflowers standing tall with attentive, solar thrills

fountain grass bestowing sharp, cascading spills

wisteria and coreopsis danced a lengthy twist

dandelions blowing a kiss along with a floating wish

morning glories giving thanks 'pon their delicate knees

irises raising the royal arms of fleur-de-lis

salvia providing runways for bumble bees

their cosmopolitan bags packed for

wherever they darn well please

Reviews

[apennylate]

Generally I am not a fan of pushing my readers onto google to decipher my verbiage.
HOWEVER...
A time and place certainly exists for such encouragement into external learning.
This being a great time and place for such a thing.
I am not only bowled over by the meter and clean feel to the slant of flow...
I am positively ecstatic that I was given so many flowers and flora to learn.

Not overwhelming, and with nice visuals/metaphors to accompany each new subject...
Thanks for writing this!

[Pete]

thank you for taking the time to stop and smell the flowers. now you can't say that i never brought you flowers ... :)

[Anita Frader]

This is gorgeous and your rhymes flow effortlessly.
I find myself longing for Spring and the beautiful colours it brings
Loving your Thoreau quotes too.

[Pete]

thank you for the kind share anita. thoreau is my muse, i live very close to where he lived and wrote over 150 years ago ... :)

[Anita Frader]

Cool. Boston?
Also, you're welcome 😊

[Pete]

northwest of boston. walden pond is half hour away. my mother was from canada ... :)

[Anita Frader]

So you're half Canadian. :)

[Pete]

yes. mother was from quebec, uncle (her brother) lived in ontario and aunt (her sister) lived in new brunswick. another aunt stayed in quebec ... :)

[Anita Frader]

Well I'm probably biased but I'd say your Canadian side is your better half.

[Pete]

lol. that's what mom used to say, god rest her soul ... :)

[Anita Frader]

💛 🙂

[Betty Hermelee]

I'm listening to all the instruments in the band as I write ....it has the feel of almost a Caribbean blend......yet your words paint a splendid scene of Monet's flowers, colors and the enormous amount of different types you mention... you must love gardening or simply walking through a mural of flowers to the beat of that very cool music....Nice Pete!
Warmly, B

[Pete]

thanks b. i love anything to do with nature. the song is a cover of a talking heads song/david byrne with maggie rogers on backup vocals. i think the song and the arrangement/performance is amazing - don't know how anyone could not feel happy and uplifted after reading and listening!

[Betty Hermelee]

I totally agree Pete, nothing like sweet smelling roses to start the day….🌷
Warmly, B

[Ken Simm.]

I am sure this is about more than the visual, more than about botany and more than about gradening. More than about nature and colour. More than about growing and nurturing. More than about the use of botanical language and more than about smelling the flowers. In fact more than about the blooms themselves. But for the flowery life of me I can't think what that is.

[Pete]

actually is only about the flowers themselves and how intricately and magnificently the creator made them but usually when i write other things inside have a way of spilling out. whatever liberates ...

[Ken Simm.]

I still think.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

the alliteration is wonderful...this rolls off the tongue...and you comprise a painting of personification that grows before our eyes.
Nicely done, Pete,
j.

[Pete]

thanks for taking the time to stop and smell ... :)

[Chris Shaw]

A treat to stop by Pete for your floral bouquet. Wonderful colour and variety. I imagined the scent wafting over to this side of the pond. It has been a cold day and spring hasn’t arrived yet so your poem has given me a taste of what will come soon. I have just had an orchid bloom which I had almost given up on. What a surprise that was.

Chris

[Fabian G. Franklin]

"Love is a rose and you'd better not pick it. It only grows when it's on the vine; handful of thorns and you'll know you missed it, lose your love when you say the word, "mine"." Linda Ronstadt
But not all flowers have thorns nor do all thorns produce flowers. Orchids rarely have thorns but they are very particular about the atmosphere in which they grow and bloom. I liked your flower arrangement here in a salute to Spring.

[Pete]

i've always been partial to the crocus poking up through snow, then i know for certain that it has arrived ... :)

[Poetic Beauty]

I love this brilliant display of flowers blooming and the personality given to them. I do so love the flower in the spring and summer!!

But sir you have forgotten the nightshade and belladonna or even a little monks hood with their more sinister sides lmao 😂 great write

[Pete]

not to mention corpse flower, monkey face orchid, black bat flower and stinking corpse lily. maybe i could work them in but there are just so many ... :)

[Poetic Beauty]

Corpse Lillies are the rare ones that only bloom like every 50 years and smell like rotting flesh? Yuck 🤢 no thanks 😊

[Pete]

here hon, i got you a corpse lily for your birthday as she gags from the stench. "get that ******** thing out of here" ... :)

[Poetic Beauty]

Yep I would react the same way. Luckily the blooms only last around 24 hours. I think I’d put it in the garage until I could donate it to the botanical garden lol 😂