Sunflower Strove With Hollyhock
Sunflower Strove with Hollyhock
(After Donald Justice "First Death")
Sunflower maize and pink-on-stalk
two plants rising toward the sun--
a sunflower strives with hollyhock.
Past noonday hour at one o'clock,
no birds sing--no, not one.
Sunflower maize and pink-on -stalk
aglow in sunny noonday shock
compete where streams of silver run.
The sunflower strives with hollyhock
in grasses nicely cleared of rock
where other strivings now are done.
Sunflower maize and pink-on-stalk
both dressed in nature's modest frock
don't seem to know they've both won;
the sunflower strives with hollyhock.
So wide it grows in front to block
the sun--her grace it hopes to shun--
sunflower maize blocks pink-on-stalk.
The sunflower strives with hollyhock.
Copyright © Carol Louise Moon | Year Posted 2021
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