Beyond the Glass Series—2

gathering flowers...

This month’s theme at Tweetspeak and Every Day Poems is Gathering Flowers, Planting Seeds. So we thought it could be fun to play along.

Prompt: Gathering Flowers, Planting Seeds

Write a poem that…

• gathers a particular flower, or

• plants a particular seed, or

• puts several unexpected flowers together, or

• uses The Language of Flowers as a source to create a found poem

Sample Poem

Our sample poem is from Beyond the Glass. It’s a simple gathering. Or, perhaps, a wish.

would

that you’d
give me
a white lily

all memory
no desire

its whole face true
its dark pollen
without stain

across
what’s past

beyond
what’s lost

—l.l. barkat