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
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