Wild Flower Walk



Wildflower Walk

Wading through wildflowers nearly waist high

In purple and pink and golden bloom

In billowing waves that brush my thigh

And fill the air with sweet perfume

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The air’s alive with butterflies

That flicker and dart with sunlit wings

Flit through this flowering paradise

Then  flutter on to other things

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Browns and blues and tortoiseshells

And marbled white and skippers bright

They open their wings and bask to sun

Drink nectar from the flowing bells

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There’s birdsfoot trefoil’s saffron bloom

Scabious lilac and violet and blue

And mignonette and purple vetch

With lucerne in  a deeper hue

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There’s pimpernel and wild rose

There are daisies alight but the poppies are over

And knapweed’s rich magenta glows

All carpeted beneath with  clover

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Spreading heads of milfoil yarrow

Fluttering with things on wings

And vibrant pink of field restharrow

And butterfly to this bloom clings

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Branching teasel’s stately stem

Conceals within a hidden gem

Of water cool in hidden pool

Where bees assuage their thirst again

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And all across these flowering seas

The air is filled with murmuring hum

Undertone drowsy with pollen and sun

Vibrating air with drone of  bees