my family and I rattle about
in a packet on a shelf
waiting for life
and liberation free of strife
she gently lifts us out
one by one
plants us firmly in the soil
plenty of water and hot sun
I am thriving as I lift
my face up to that sun
I worship as if we were one
others not so blessed
stunted grow wont let
them thrive
but most of us grow
to survive
as a miniature I
have many sunny faces
all joyfully directing
our adoring gaze
towards that warming sun
we will bask and glow
for our kate’s show
then slowly we will
fall into a very deep
slumber composted
into her mulch to
fertilise her new batch
for this is the cycle
of life … most of our
cousins prefer the
cooler climate to flower
but we thrive in this
intense heat as it
feeds our need for sun
our cheerful colour brings fun
d’Verse, to be a flower, Linda
my photo fifteen minutes ago …
this one opened just as Linda was posting this prompt!
you can see the other heads coming just below the flower
… more pics as they unfold
Gorgeous photo and words! Thank you for sharing.
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I love this -sunflowers are one of my absolute favorites! ❤
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and mine too obviously 🙂
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Lovely.
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I love the photo and poem combination………..your words made my head eager for spring.
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lol thanks Wendi just as we are eager for autumn 🙂
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🙂 i understand. Autumn is my absolutely favorite season……..
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we have had a sweltering summer so we look forward to some relief … we don’t have extreme seasons like you … very few trees that lose their leaves, no snow fall, etc 🙂
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no snow! that sounds amazing. 🙂 🙂
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yes and no, we did a major trip late teens just to see snow for the first time 🙂
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🙂 I am sure that was a great experience. I grew up in a snowy part of the United States and I so wished I lived somewhere where I didn’t have to deal with it.
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I more recently lived with it in the Himalayas and that was not a pleasant experience at all due to power outages for up to ten days, no way to heat or cook … give me temperate climates any day 🙂
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oh my goodness, that sounds horrible. I would love to read a post about all the amazing places you have lived…….I am sure you have many awesome stories.
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too many Wendi so overwhelming I have no idea where to start 🙂
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i bet it would be amazing….
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I do like adventures and have done what I wanted as funds allowed always travelling on a shoestring budget which allowed me to mingle with the locals 🙂
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your life sounds like an amazing novel!
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probably is, and still is … planning a few adventures this year 🙂
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I love your poetry.
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thanks Eliza, I appreciate that!
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Oh how lovely to experience the growth and life of a sunflower. Exquisitely written. Bravo. Loved it. Very cute
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thanks more are coming so those following my garden posts will see them 🙂
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Sunflower poem #3 out here on the trail, and all so different; marvelous. I like the varied rhyme schemes you use.
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thanks Glenn, appreciate that … they are a cheerful flower 🙂
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Indeed it is the cycle of life. Lovely words Kate.
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i love your sunflower conversation, oh they do love their Kate and want to shine in her show – that was simply the sweetest thing i have read today
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Such a happy and healthy looking sunflower!
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it’s only tiny as it literally just opened about an hour before this shot … it will grow thanks Lisa 🙂
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I love the point of view from the sunflower – I always liked that they followed the sun keeping their “faces” pointed to that light!! Perhaps you are one of the shining lights that your sunflowers follow…
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lol still got my christmas lights out near them … going to rehang them in heart shapes 🙂
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We chose the same flower. Love your photo and verse specially:
feeds our need for sun
our cheerful colour brings fun
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thanks so much Grace … it was an obvious choice for me 🙂
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It is good that there are flowers that prefer intense heat to bloom.
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yes like us, some need shade, some need wet … all different but delightful in their own way Frank 🙂
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Beautiful! Love the way you wrote this, SweetKate! Sunflowers are such lovely companions! 🙂
Oh, Sunflowers, we are so glad you share your love, warmth, bright-smiles with us! You are joy-bringers! I can’t imagine the world without you! 🙂
HUGS!!! 🙂
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lol but so many have missed that it is my pic above 🙂
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I remember that beautiful pic, or a similar one you shared before, and us talking about sunflowers we grew/were growing. 🙂 And I think I shared a poem with you that I wrote about sunflowers. 🙂
Sunflowers are one of my fav flowers!
Guess what?! One of my Native friends…her grandmother said that the smaller sunflowers that grow wild by the highways and roads predicted the winter weather…she said “As high as those little sunflowers grow tells us how many inches of snow we will have.” I thought that interesting.
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wow love that idea but I assure you we Never ever get snow fall here 🙂 but they are super cute 🙂 and I enjoyed your poem … think that was when I started nagging you to post more ❤
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Thank you! I still find it difficult to post any poem, story, or writing I’ve written. Oh well.
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so due to your low self worth you deprive us of your talent … 😦 [don’t know how to emoji tears …]
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My lack of bravery to put up my writings is low.
I’ve done a lot of work on my over all self-worth and it’s pretty good now. 🙂
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then throw caution to the wind and please share more? Show us the power of all that hard work ❤
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I love how you bring to life these lovely sunflowers and provided them a poetic much they much needed.
I remembered planting sunflower seeds in my garden…they thrive and live to bear beautiful flowers which brings really joy to all of us.
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all flowers do Mich but somehow sunflowers and I have a very strong connection 🙂
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Such a lovely and beautiful poem, Kate and the sunflower is so nice and fresh with the other shoots coming out. The sun that beckons its full rays of light on them giving them warmth and sunlight.
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This really is beautiful
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thanks 🙂
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Beautiful…the poem, and the photo! I love sunflowers! They are such ‘happy’ flowers. 🙂
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yes Linda, why I like them also 🙂
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Oh, we were both on the same flower… I love its cheerfulness
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yes it invites warmth and you and Grace do that well 🙂
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I wish I had a camera a few years ago when I saw a whole field of Sunflowers…
I picked up some seeds at the local dollar store – I’m going to try sunflowers again. But I have to wait until after May 10 th to put anything outside – that’s when we are past the danger of frost.
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if it brings you joy do it … if it doesn’t then let go 🙂
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How fitting an icon of your sunniness, Kate, as sunflowers store up positive energy and release it in all manner of positive ways.
There are the seeds, of course, which provide a plentiful, nutritious snack for both us and the birds. Raccoons, too, though I think those critters are limited to North America. The vibrant petals brighten their surroundings long after the season has passed, and even then, the flowers benefit next year’s compost. A continuous miracle.
Do you ever hang the flowers near your bird feeder? The feathered crowd definitely approves!
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I live in the country with mobs of birds … or is that flocks … we do need to supply water, which I do daily.
There is enough feed about altho we are known to feed certain ones but it’s more like half a loaf in honey water … too big for a feeder. A feeder here wouldn’t cope 🙂
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If only flowers could speak and here they can. Thankyou.
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lol I am a woman of many talents … master of none 🙂
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Wonderful!
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thanks!
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You’re welcome!
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the last line is so true! Well done! 🙂
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thanks!
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The words and the photo bring warm feelings on a gray day.
Happy Friday Kate.
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thanks dear friend … hoping spring is near 🙂
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Sunflowers make me happy and your poem did the same thing! Wonderful Kate. Makes me want to go and plant some myself 🙂
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well worth it, they bring such cheer Christine! Second one has opened … now for the extras 🙂
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You know some years ago I suddenly has a bunch of them sprouting up in my garden. The bird (or squirrels) had dropped the seeds from the bird feeder and they germinated right there underneath! Nice surprise 🙂
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oh what a delightful gift!
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I thought so too. The birds also delivered me a Papaya tree. Different birds and a different place but the gift was a great 😍👍
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oh I love fresh papaya … you are most blessed 🙂
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Yes I got blooms and fruit from it. Win-win!
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that’s surprising as they need a male and female plant to fertilise fruit … birds must have dropped seeds for both trees!
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Maybe my neighbor’s tree was the opposite sex!
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ah yes if it is nearby that would explain it … smart birds to do that!
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I heard that about Birds of Paradise too.
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no idea about them, but know my papayas 🙂
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Such a wonderful flower you selected, Kate! Sunny and happy like you! And marvellous write up!
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thanks sis, it is next to my name everytime I post a comment 🙂
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Lol! Don’t think I had forgotten that! You are so welcome. 🙂
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