if I were to give you a bouquet of yellow

Brian’s Poetry Oasis

if I were to give you a bouquet of yellow: I’d gather the splendor of a daffodil’s petals the taste of squash blossoms fried,goat cheese melting inside the perfume of green grass mixed with fresh dandelion I’d give you standing on tiptoes “the little daisy that could” - never giving up to be noticed and lost in the crowd daylillies that line country roadsides while they still stand at attention - long before they tucker out and close for the evening and the finishing touch before my bouquet is given? I’d bunch up and bind it with vine of Black-eyed Susan. © 2020 Brian Crouth Image credit: “Mains aux Fleurs” (Hands with Flowers) by Pablo Picasso