Flowers from the prairie
evoke a time when
pronghorns fled buffalo,
and prairie dogs
nibbled sagebrush
amid burrowing owls
and mountain plover.
Now they nod their pumpkin petals
beside clapboard colonials
where children bounce
on shielded trampolines
and squirrels chase
cardinals from bird feeders.
The seeds find the soil,
the leaves find the sun,
and the petals find me.
I don’t know the scent
of sagebrush but I know
the bitter tang of Gloriosa,
with its roots in the past.
Copyright 2017 Brenda Davis Harsham
Notes: This photo is the Gloriosa daisy (Rudbeckia hirta), native of the North American prairie. Someday I’d like to see Yellowstone, home of buffalo, hot springs, wildflowers, tourists and the super-volcano.
Lovely.
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
BLACK-EYED SUSANS—WELCOME YOU! 🙂
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Excellent! 😎😎😎🥀🥀🥀
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Lovely photo and words, Brenda!
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Thanks, Dan!
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how pretty, and i love wildflowers of all kinds – how wonderful that would be to see yellowstone, and in the meantime, you have your garden -)
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Yes, my garden is a wonderful place. XOXO
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I love your style!
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Oh you. Wonderful. Amazing you! Reading this just made me very happy.
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Me, too, Cindy. Wildflowers tamed in a garden, but still echoing their past freedoms.
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Glad you like it.
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I bet you’ve been to Yellowstone. 🙂
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Marvelous poem, Brenda with so much love of nature in these wonderful lines penned. An apt picture too.
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Thank you! You nailed it. I do love nature.
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Such a lovely autumn flower you have photographed so well. Thanks Brenda.
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I thought it was the perfect flower for September.
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Indeed it was👍😃simply perfect!
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TY again!
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A great ending, Brenda.
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Thanks, Robbie!
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Lovely photos!!
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Thanks!
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