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Beautiful Spring Flowers

in my city of Canada ...
   the snowdrop flower ... welcomes Spring
      growing through the melting snow
         the flower contour is a snowdrop
    even a single is impressive
        snowdrops are a symbol used in poetry

       ~ soon garden nurseries are selling
pansies in a wild rainbow of saturations 
       that can survive our still cold nights ~

       and then come the petunias
     that cheerful garden favorite for window boxes
in a multitude of hues and configurations
            I love the type that grow like a wave
        for my hanging baskets ...

~ some of the names for petunia varieties 
      so poetically named are ... dream, magic
  cascade, horizon, fantasy, and more ~ 

but, my absolute favorite Spring flower
    is the tulip ... a jewel-like beauty
         that only blooms for 3 to 7 days 
           to create sweeping beds breathtaking ...
     in every tint and intensity imaginable and guise 
the spiritual meaning of a tulip is love, reflection, 
                 forgiveness and 'new beginnings' ...
        
        ~ a bit of history-  in 1945 Canada sheltered
the future Dutch Queen Julianna during WW2 Nazi
      occupation and in thanks the Dutch sent
 thousands of tulip bulbs ... and still do  ~

a single perfection, a ruffled, a striped... each beautiful 

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May 7, 2021


Poetry/Free Verse/beautiful Spring flowers
Copyright Protected, ID 05-1353-335-07
All Rights Reserved, 2021, Constance La France


Written for the Standard contest, The Most Beautiful Flowers
You've Seen Blossoming This Spring So Far
sponsor, M.L. Kiser, Judged 05/27/2021

First Place

Copyright © Constance La France | Year Posted 2021

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Sara Kendrick Date: 5/31/2021 9:40:00 AM Congrats on this winner. I enjoyed the information presented as well. It is wonderful that your country saved the life of the Queen of Holland and that the country honors your country by sending the bulbs. I do like tulips but I have lost all of mine. I need to get some more but Alas! I am really not able to do that work anymore. Sara Login to Reply Constance La France Date: 6/1/2021 8:54:00 PM Sara, thanks for the congrats and comment, if you lived in my city in Canada, after the 2 week Tulip festival, they give the tulip bulbs away to the public, love Constance

Robert Lindley Date: 5/29/2021 4:59:00 PM A very fine poem, congratulations on your win my friend. God bless.... Login to Reply Constance La France Date: 5/30/2021 12:27:00 PM Robert, thank you for the compliment and congratulations, appreciate a lot, peace _Constance

Subimal Sinha-Roy Date: 5/28/2021 9:03:00 PM Great tribute to the tulip. Congrats on your win. Login to Reply Constance La France Date: 5/29/2021 8:45:00 AM Subimal, thank you for the comment and congrats, love _Constance

Gary Radice Date: 5/28/2021 12:51:00 PM Snowdrops hail Spring where I live in the UK. I love to see them. I never knew that about tulips either. You've adopted an interesting style for this free verse Constance - weaving history, description with a narrative. You've intrigued me and set me up well for this weeks episode of Gardeners' World that's just about to begin on BBC. Congratulations on your win. Cheers - Gary Login to Reply Constance La France Date: 5/28/2021 3:40:00 PM Gary, thank you for the congratulations and the compliment on my poem and style, and the great comment, my mother was a avid gardener and taught me quite a bit about flowers through helping her, we just finished the 2 week Tulip Festival here in my city in Canada, peace _Constance

L Milton Hankins Date: 5/28/2021 11:54:00 AM Congratulations, Constance, for your fine showing of tulips! Login to Reply Constance La France Date: 5/28/2021 3:40:00 PM Milt, thank you for the congratulations and comment, peace _Constance

Christuraj Alex Date: 5/28/2021 11:42:00 AM Very Charming! Congratulations! Login to Reply Constance La France Date: 5/28/2021 3:41:00 PM Christuraj, thank you for the compliment and congratulations, peace _Constance

Anne-Lise Andresen Date: 5/9/2021 9:42:00 AM - A beautiful poem, Constanse :) - My father's pride ... his beloved tulips :) - I had to find tulips for his funeral .... he died in early January and at that time of year they are hard to get ... but I managed to get them :) - Luck in the contest :) - hugs // Anne-Lise :) Login to Reply Constance La France Date: 5/9/2021 9:47:00 AM Anne-Lise, thank you for the compliment and comment, and encouragement. Tulips are often used in funeral arrangements I have noticed. Happy you were able to get some for your fathers funeral, my father loved the yellow ones, I was not able to get them in the month of July so, I used beautiful yellow roses instead and told everyone to send yellow flowers, love _Constance

David Mchattie Date: 5/8/2021 6:25:00 PM I do love my tulips. They start coming up even before the snows gone. That is one hearty plant. Well penned. Have a great day. Login to Reply Constance La France Date: 5/9/2021 9:29:00 AM David, thank you for the lovely comment and compliment, peace _Constance

Beryl Edmonds Date: 5/8/2021 6:10:00 PM Those beautiful flowers that come along in spring are simply delightful and make one’s heart sing. Your poem describes spring flowers so well Constance ~ Belle Login to Reply Constance La France Date: 5/9/2021 9:30:00 AM Belle, thank you for the great comment and for the compliment on my poem, love _Constance

Arturo Michael Date: 5/8/2021 3:05:00 PM I like the presentation...I guess it's more the style...it has two voices...Like a storyteller would tell it...I also got a view of the snowdrops... Login to Reply Constance La France Date: 5/8/2021 3:54:00 PM Arturo, thank you for the compliment, I am a storyteller and I reflect that in my poetry, the Ojibwe, my ancestors are known to be storytellers, my grandma was and it was the gift she left me, she never wrote a single story down, but could tell them word for word over the years, not me I have to write them down, peace _Constance

Sotto Poet Date: 5/8/2021 2:39:00 PM Clever presentation, dearest Constance; your flowers are beautiful, and I can't wait anymore for the poem. Good luck in the contest Login to Reply Constance La France Date: 5/8/2021 2:42:00 PM Lasaad, thank you for the compliment on my poem, I mention Canada because I imagine every country would have different Spring flowers, peace _Constance