Poppies on the Golan Heights, photo by Ian Scott, from Flickr, Creative Commons
This National Poetry Month I will be posting a sequence of poems, written last year and this year, for others in a series called Giving Poetry. In this series, people request a poem using a title, specific words, concepts, or ideas. After writing the poem, I send it to them, posting it on Facebook and on my blog. This is Giving Poetry.
Title: Seeing the Flowers
Concept: something about seeing the flowers instead of the
mountains
Seeing the Flowers: for
Elaine
The splendor of the rolling hills
and peaks captivated him for hours.
Their majesty and splendor towered.
She reflected. Through the windowpane,
flowers emerged, as the landscape waned
from brown, to green, to color stained.
The blooms blew gently in the spring breeze.
Their colors rolled in shades of red and purple hue.
“Look!” she exclaimed. He replied, “This mountain view!”
He saw the mountains, while she saw the flowers.
There is something about seeing
