Flowers in my Garden (2025)

Flowers in my Garden

(Daffodils – Tiger Lilies – Wildflowers)

 

                          The Daffodils

In my garden, a morning bathed in early sunlight,

the daffodils announce themselves, loud with trumpets

of golden yellow, resplendent, and heard

only in the silence of their arrival.

 

                          Tiger Lilies 

Early spring, nighttime, the Tiger Lilies

prowl around my garden, settling down,

and in the morning, green stalks and leaves

sprout up where they lay themselves to rest,

awaiting summer, and, grown tall, ready

for their orange coats to blossom and bloom.

 

                          Wildflowers 

And in my wildflower garden, the flowers

are wild, a potpourri of unknown seeds

tossed willy-nilly into newly turned soil,

perennials needing little care, returning again,

or perhaps new plants blown in on a summer breeze

from somewhere, enjoying that freedom to be

just a wild flower, wild and free and in my garden.