Cornflower Blue

child-like eyes I look at the waving flowers
only ones as blue as this can be called the cornflower
resplendent in any bouquet loved by many artists,
noted favourite of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer
fields of cornflowers make everyone smile, even
loving the dormice that lives in its midst.
oh so blue the united mixed colours of spring and summer
with its mixture of green and yellow as nature intended
even though to feel blue is feeling sad or low
revealing a silly grin when a nosegay of these flowers are given by a child.

penned 27 February 2016.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016



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Date: 3/7/2016 7:43:00 AM
Nice win
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Date: 3/1/2016 10:49:00 AM
Lovely write Seren. Love the use of the word "nosegay" when referring to a child giving flowers, seems appropriately whimsical.
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Date: 3/1/2016 5:11:00 AM
Many congrats on your win, Seren. Elaine
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Date: 2/28/2016 6:21:00 AM
I imagine Vermeer reading your poem with the same joy Henri Rousseau painted with 20 nuances of green his dreams.When I was a child I liked best the cauliflower From all the flower I had ever known Then, I loved the flowers I could offer as a gift, including my own verses. Now, like a butterfly I enjoy learning about each flower living on our earth, and in our hearts...
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Seren Roberts
Date: 2/28/2016 3:59:00 PM
Yes nature is a wonderful artist and thankfully our eyes see what it beho!ds. My countriesflower is the daffodil and on March 1 is our National Day when allthe people will be wearing a daffodil!. ....Seren
Date: 2/28/2016 3:26:00 AM
Cornflower is yellow?
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Seren Roberts
Date: 2/28/2016 4:45:00 AM
Not in UK lol I suggest you Google it. Lol Seren
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