Lady’s Smock (Milk-maids or Cuckoo-flower)

By Rhiannonw

Mon, 11 Apr 2011
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Gangly stems on damp clay-ey verge,
sun-bleached smocks like a milky surge
of many small flowers, lilac-pale;
Milk-maids wave in a soggy vale.
Lower leaf-stalks with leaflets rounded,
– some grow roots, bud, – new plants are founded.
Top leaves’ leaflets are linear, thin.
Cuckoo-flowers lifted while the cuckoos sing.

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Comments

Submitted by Rhiannonw on
Thanks, lovely flower!

 

Submitted by ScoZen on
Delightful. A reminder for me to take care when out walking the wilds.
ScoZen

Submitted by Rhiannonw on
Thank you. I notice them when driving along the roads, some damp verges, especially where we used to live in Sussex.

 

Submitted by jeand on

Hi Rhiannon

Another flower for me to google in a minute. I have learned a lot from you, bit by bit.

Jean

Jean Day

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thanks, Jean. There were so many where we lived in Sussex, one of the early series of surges of spring flowers one waited for. Here, in Herefordshire they seem to be muh less common. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

This is a gorgous flower that you've done justice to in your poem.

I like the line:- Milk-maids wave in a soggy vale. Just had this image of the flowers waving in the breeze. Very much enjoyed reading Rhiannon.

Jenny. 

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you! and there is a photo on this one! Rhiannon