The Rose and the Daffodil - For Food For Thought Contest

Foreword: on 30 December 2018 one last straggling rose remained in my garden. Below it a daffodil flower was just splitting, ready to open. Now that can’t be right. The Rose And The Daffodil The rose and the daffodil never should meet Although one will grow at the other one’s feet In some proper climate there just isn’t room For a daffodil flower to watch a rose bloom When summers were cradled by May and September Roses we saw and daffs we’d remember But now daffs and roses are blooming together Unthinking we welcome this disjointed splendour In the March I once knew, a new spring was due And September’s autumn saw leaves change their hue But the rose a contender to see off November While daffodils open to brighten December The holiday maker sunbathes with the masses Worrying not about copious gasses That pour from the engines of passenger jets For sun, sea and sand is as good as it gets The vomit of commerce the cities spew out While making the stuff that we can’t do without So many products that make our today That factories make and we throw away But no workshop makes us a shiny new climate It’s future so finite a human could time it Perhaps we should worry about our forever When the rose and the daffodil flower together 4 January 2019 For: Food for Thought Contest Sponsor: Silent One