White stars and meadow bells

Gold cherry

By Rhiannonw

Mon, 19 Apr 2021
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18 comments
 

Wood Anemone

Woodland stars –
broad-petalled,
matt-white, bright.

Cowslip

Rich yellow cuplets,
ring joyfully.

Snake’s Head Fritillary

Fairy-skirt cowbells mauve,
faint, tessellated pattern of squares –
delicately waft.

https://www.abctales.com/story/rhiannonw/snakes-head-fritillary
 

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Comments

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

How do you manage to come up with such beautiful wording Rhiannon? And the photos just set your poem off perfectly.

Absolutely wonderful and a pleasure to read.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you, Jenny, so much. It was such a pleasure to get out and see these again, and the central features that delighted me in each, and that seemed to describe them,  I felt I wanted to get into succinct verse! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

Jenny sums it up! Thank you Rhiannon - small, but perfect

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

I'm so glad that you liked them! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you for the cherries for these beautiful flowers! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

exquisite! trying to think of the perfect word to match those you have chosen

this are as unfussy, delicate and gorgeous as the flowers you depict

I like the fritillary one best. I keep trying to grow them, last year they all flowered and it was magic and this year even the leaves haven't grown, which makes them seem even more magic :0) I hope they have spirited themselves away to your water meadows to have their fragile richness caught by a true bard! I think this description, though shorter, catches them even better than the one in your link, though that one's photo is the best picture I've  ever seen of fritillaries. Your calendars must be very special!

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you, Di. I must tell Keith of your comment on his photo of the Fritillary! These ones were growing in a wood that was partly a woodland cemetary I think, but just a bit higher than the stream. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Mark Burrow on

This delicate dash of springtime is our Pick of the Day -- please do share on Facebook and Twitter. 

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you for this. So glad others can notice and enjoy! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Jane Hyphen on

Beautiful and fitting tribute to three delightful flowers. I love 'fairy skirt' I have a few in a damp patch which they love, even a white one amoung the snakey purples, they really are otherwordly flowers.  And those wood anenomes matt-white bright, shining in the dark woods. Absolutely gorgeous. Cowslips ring joyfully, they cheer me up on my dog walks.

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you, Jane. I've always loved the rich, bright colour of cowslips, and the matt-white of the wood anemones is such a lovely contrast to the shining of celandines in the sunshine. The Fritillaries I only got to know in recent years, and they are so unusual that it is always a thrill to find them! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by luigi_pagano on

Nice to see these inspired verses paying tribute to some of Nature's miracles. Very well done on Pick of the Day.

Luigi x

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you, Luigi. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by marandina on

Succinct and beautiful. Congrats on POTD, Rhiannon. Paul

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you, Paul. I did enjoy getting my thoughts about these three beautiful flowers into a communicatable form!  Rhiannon

 

Submitted by jeand on

Hi Rhiannon

Lovely little poems, and very educational too.

Jean Day

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you, Jean. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by jeand on

 

Jean Day