CAMELLIA

An artless blush nestled in 
pale green, quilted air
illumed the lonely garden's 
hoary nook. 

A petalled ingenue tiptoed
into the Dawn, whorls 
of shallow, frosted cups her
raiment and chaplet.

Whence emerged this rarity,
this miracle garbed in 
June's hues and September's
dew, a tuft of growing light
'pon a bed of shadows?

'Twas as tho' Summer's last
wish to Autumn's heart
had called in a borderland of
shorn orchards and 
nascent red-gold.
 
Blooming and Decay, warmth
and chill, radiance and
mist, entwined in felicitation
and commiseration,
in oneiric communion, sending
forth a mutual dream
to Earth.

© 2015 Lily's Verse

Lilium Candidum

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