“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.” ~ Theodore Roethke
Keep the light
All flowers look like fireworks
“Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Keep the light
“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.” ~ Theodore Roethke
Mad with joy
“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.” ~ Iris Murdoch
An Iris Blessing
A single flower
“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.” ~ Buddha
His heart enclose
A single flow’r he sent me, since we met.
All tenderly his messenger he chose;
Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet—
One perfect rose.
I knew the language of the floweret;
“My fragile leaves, ” it said, “his heart enclose.”
Love long has taken for his amulet
One perfect rose.
~ Dorothy Parker
A work of art
A work of art; and yet no art of man,
Can work, this work, these little creatures can.
~ Geffrey Whitney.
The patterns we perceive
“The patterns we perceive are determined by the stories we want to believe.” ~ John Verndon.
Fragile petals
Love may be wind-tossed as a blue flax flower,
Or hold its fragile petals but an hour,
Vanish with frost; still, roots that drink the rain,
Eternal as ours, will live…and bloom again.
~ Mary L. Kienholz.
Janet Fogg / J.R.P. Fogg 