Morning Glory

“ It is as if all sorrows vanish into the earth
and re-bloom into flowers like this,
an origami shape filled with sky.

For weeks, the small buds stayed shut,
spiraling ovals on a waxy vine
that laced the stems of the last sunflowers.

I thought the first frost would darken it,
tighten it to coils of thin black wire,

but then, this morning, the blossom's open dress,
blue silk that will wrinkle in hours,

yet for now, like a watercolor painted in the air,
one luminous white star in its shining throat.”
~ Joan MacMillan

[Shutterbug]

Beautiful capture and poem.

[Milanie]

Beautiful

[Chris Cook]

This is beautiful, as is the poem. But I have a hard time enjoying morning glory because in our garden it is an invasive species which we struggle to control as it threatens to take over.

[KoalaGardens🐨]

oh how lovely and bright

[Diana]

Beautiful capture, love the colour and poem

[Valerie Chesney]

So beautiful!

[Issi Bannerman]

What a fabulous poem and image.

[Susan Wakely]

This is a beauty.

[Boxplayer]

Just glorious

[Joan Robillard]

Beautiful, my mother planted morning glories one time and I loved them. I am the only one who remembered them, and I was young when it happened. It was just fascinating that the only bloomed in the morning.

[Carole Sandford]

Beautiful!

[Wylie]

A lovely weed!

[Mags]

What gorgeous color!

[Bucktree]

Lovely poem to go with this spectacular bloom.

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Great details and beautiful colors.

[Kate]

Great closeup of this beautiful bloom

[Phil Howcroft]

jumps out of the screen at me Laura

[GaryW]

Looks like a star!

[Elisabeth Sæter]

Lovely