Flowers Flourish in Their Proper Clime

April 6, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since trees, plants, and flowers are about to bloom, this week’s theme is bloom as a metaphor.

Today’s poem is a number poem for someone who has just moved to a new state.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Flowers flourish in their proper clime,

In which they find the sunlight, soil, and rain

Favorable to who they really are.

Then they and their environment combine,

Yielding leaf to soil to leaf again.

So might a seed blown hither from afar

Implant itself, co-fashioning its room,

Xerophyte or hydrophyte in bloom.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/flowe3.html. For more number poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/numberpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Bloom as a Metaphor

April 2: Fifty-Three

April 3: Stephen

April 4: Treat Yourself to All the Best of Life

April 5: You Are the Rose About to Bloom

April 6: Flowers Flourish in Their Proper Clime