Wild Iris

[affinity]

beneath green shadows'
oblique slant
and mother's borrowed parasol

fingers cool from an afternoon shower
tease curls and whisps of incense haze

eager to catch the oriental scent
pervading savoured garden light

rich with warm tranquility
and the drowsy contentment
that only bees know

their honeyed hum,
rendering a gypsy breeze,

to goad a single silvered leaf
from hoary old man willow

out onto the air thick with pollen
over the nettles by the brook,

whose bright eddies
and sun-sparks
invite thought to roam,

past birch, rectory,
the freshly daubed mill;

white sails etched on
a watercolour sky
over wheatfields
framed in poppy red,

down gold-dappled fen paths

to my shady glade's,
languorous influence
in summer's secret loam

where wisdom may efface
youth's threadbare dreams

cast tenderly to those lyric sentinels

the yellow Iris,

wild quietitude and the twilight

[Michael]

affinity, watch how you talk about old men. Just kidding. ;)

This piece is so serene that it put me into a meditative state. I liked where it took me so much after the first reading that I’ve read it several times, just so I could continue to revisit that place.

I also find your writing a poem about the inspiration that led you to write the poem interesting and clever.
Originally posted by affinity
cast tenderly to those lyric sentinels

the yellow Iris,

wild quietitude and the twilight
You create virtual scenery with wonderful imagery.http://cmw.dailymoviereviews.com/contrib/fk/daisy.gif

[affinity]

Why thank you!:) The imagery depicts the landscape around my village. Very
cool that you caught the thread linking the inspiration into the poem, you're the first to have seen it, well caught...

[Anitha Varma]

exquisite.
"fingers cool from an afternoon shower
tease curls and whisps of incense haze "
-Beautiful!
Regards, Anitha.

[Territorial Hawk]

Affinity,

vivid, and a beautiful scene.