flower of orange whirlwind said Princess Haiku

tristesse of a poppy in rain, Said Princess Haiku

longing for immortality said, Princess Haiku

Princess Haiku pursues a flower called, Midnight

Why is it that the most fascinating things happen at midnight mused, Princess Haiku? This flower for example, opened tonight as mysteriously as a secret assignation or an intimate engagement with beauty.

a dream, said Princess Haiku

"Who know not love from amity,
Nor my reported self from me;
A fair fit gift is this, meseems,
You give--this withering flower of dreams.

"O frankly fickle, and fickly true,
Do you know what the days will do to you?
To your Love and you what the days will do,
O frankly fickle, and fickly true?

"You have loved me, Fair, three lives--or days:
'Twill pass with the passing of my face.
But where I go, your face goes too,
To watch lest I play false to you.

"I am but, my sweet, your foster-lover,
Knowing well when certain years are over
You vanish from me to another;
Yet I know, and love, like the foster-mother.

"So, frankly fickle, and fickly true!
For my brief life--while I take from you
This token, fair and fit, meseems,
For me--this withering flower of dreams."

* * *

The sleep-flower sways in the wheat its head,
Heavy with dreams, as that with bread:
The goodly grain and the sun-flushed sleeper
The reaper reaps, and Time the reaper.

I hang 'mid men my needless head,
And my fruit is dreams, as theirs is bread:
The goodly men and the sun-hazed sleeper
Time shall reap, but after the reaper
The world shall glean of me, me the sleeper!

by Francis Thompson


With appreciation for all of the flowers in my garden:

Japonisme
East Coast Dweller
Get Zapped
Absolute Vanilla
she Who Flies
Jac
Antonia
Marion
dream catcher
kat

Princess Haiku's Season of Wildflowers

A Season of Wildflowers after a fire, said Princess Haiku.

One of the best kept secrets of seasonally dry habitats in California known as chaparral, is that fire is required to germinate the gorgeous wildflowers that grow there. Seedlings appear in the ashy soil after fires. The fire is an essential and required element of the cycle. Follow this link for more photos and information on this amazing phenomena.

Eventually, said Princes Haiku, we all come to realize that we are wildflowers of the chaparral.

White Ballerina Poppies

White ballerina poppies told their dreams to Princess Haiku. Don't tell, they whispered.