The Flowers of Spring

We don't get them in my part of the country, but this is the time of year that the Bluebonnets festoon the roadsides in Texas.

They are magnificent, brilliantly blue flowers that draw your attention to the unconditional grace of the Divine.

A few years ago I drove along the Long Star State's back roads and the Bluebonnets triggered the following poem.

Bluebonnets Bold

© 2010 Rolland G. Smith

Bold blossoms blue stand proud above their green,

They grow in strength and know their light is seen

By all who motor by or stop to gaze

Into this garden of wonder, a maze.

Color binds attention and form holds grace

Attracting heart and spirit to this place.

The flowers stand as one and separate too,

As symbols of the noble ones, too few

Who come to see and hold this place in love

Responding to an essence from above.

Sweet nectar is the wine of blossoms blue,

Sipping through the lips of zepher’s new.

Tell all who pass here, fast or walking by:

The fragrance of the flowers glorify

The spirit of the earth and nurtured seed

That blossoms into beauty when we need.