As the days’s news has come...

As the days’s news has come to unfold

one asks what be the purpose of a flower’s story told

be it that Nature and beauty is to ever prevail

beyond the reported overwhelming travail

we to know that it is Creation’s blessings and grace

to be lovingly held in heart’s place.

… and so the Lily…

sweet be this budding bloom of white

petals delicate in the favor of light

chastity, virtue, purity, be its calling claim

this a Lily, blessed be its given name

a bloom from a bouquet, a gift received

this the bequest of beauty conceived

and with a sweet sigh I to behold

its allure and the ancient tales told

unfolding be its endearing gift of grace

such ambrosial splendor within soul I to place.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Photo: ...and so the Lily..., CAR, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2020-2021.