the idea of the flower

[Gabrielle Dean]

Flowers - R S Thomas

 

But behind the flower

is that other flower 

that is ageless, the idea 

of the flower, the one 

we smell when we imagine

it, that as often 

as it is picked blossoms

again, that has the perfection

of all flowers, the purity

without the fragility.

 

Another R. S. Thomas poem that takes my breath away. Hard to find an image that expresses that essence of the flower, that “other flower”, like the ‘is-ness’ of flowers. Reminds me of  Hopkin's "inscape" ( "the unified complex of characteristics that give each thing its uniqueness and that differentiate it from other things” https://victorianweb.org/authors/hopkins/hopkins1.html),

 

[Christabel Chamarette]

Brilliant photo, poem and inspiration from you Gabby.XChristabel

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