SUMMER RENDEZVOUS

Much peace. Today’s poetry prompt is:

Today, pick a flower or two (or a whole bouquet, if you like) from this online edition of Kate Greenaway’s Language of Flowers. Now, write your own poem in which you muse on your selections’ names and meanings. If you’re so inclined, you could even do some outside research into your flowers, and incorporate facts that you learn into your work.

Here is my poem:

SUMMER RENDEZVOUS

By Farah Lawal Harris, 2026

Two little sprigs resembling

star-shaped miniature palm trees

appeared in my garden bed.

Through technology, I identified them as

Indian chickweed,

a “highly nutritious, edible wild green”

with small white flowers

that quickly self-seed.

According to “Language of Flowers”

Chickweed represents rendezvous.

It’s no wonder those two

springs slid under my Salvia “blue

butterfly,” wishing for a kiss

of sweet nectar,

itching to feel the touch

of wings flutter,

spreading its weak stems

to make love

to summer.