Poem & photo by Ingrid Bruck
Forget-Me-Not Garden
Plant a pocket garden
with blue and yellow wildflowers,
the colors are primary opposites
on the color wheel.
Take it from Von Goethe
who loved that pallet,
a forget-me-not garden
contains conceptual opposites,
each blossom, a dissimilar pair.
Sunshine triumphs
on the edge of night,
a flower marriage
of the remnants of blue winter
with springtime lemons.
Morning gold resides
in coreopsis, buttercups and marigolds,
blooming beside midnight blues
of starflower, chicory and blue bonnet.
Floral language speaks:
a blue hyacinth means constancy of love,
and a yellow rose, friendship.
And don’t ignore their bifurcated twins:
yellow monkshood for hatred,
blue lobelia for malevolence.
Forget-me-nots have blue petals
that circle a sun.
Small clusters contain
the yin of blue night,
the yang of sunlight.
Entwined in the symbology of color
opposition prevails,
the blooms remember hope.
You can say it with flowers.
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Date published: September 17, 2018