diff --git a/priv/posts/yellow-flowers.md b/priv/posts/yellow-flowers.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c9ac6b9 --- /dev/null +++ b/priv/posts/yellow-flowers.md @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +--- +title: Yellow Flowers +week: 8 +date: 2024-02-23 +--- +## dandelions +A weed, sunshine yellow\ +A weed, make a wish\ +How can something unwanted provide such bliss? + +In Spring, she arrives\ +In Spring, tall and proud\ +Upon this gem we've all avowed + +The fairies, growing within\ +The fairies, scattered free\ +Off into the world to hear further plea + +Among others, smiling gently\ +Among others, overlooked\ +Owner of the land has removal booked ++++ +## daffodils +A noise that disturbed him from his slumber\ +He peered out the window to see her there\ +That skirt a perfect match in his garden\ +Yellow falling seamless with his flowers + +He ran out to meet her, to claim her his\ +But with his approach the illusion fell\ +The colour's a tint green he told himself\ +He could feel she was not what he fell for + +Back to his solitude he retreated\ +Glancing by chance at his prize daffodil\ +Something about its beauty entranced him\ +And then he realised where his heart lied + +The days moved on, but he stayed fixated\ +It pained him they couldn’t be together\ +He grieved his creation as not feeling\ +It will never know nor return his love + +After far too much deliberation\ +He was struck with the only solution\ +In his garden he dug under the roots\ +There he lay down pulling the dirt over + +That woman visited many more times\ +She noted the daffodils had grown great\ +Becoming more beautiful and vibrant\ +Yet she felt that something was not quite right + +While flowers definitely are lovely\ +She misses the man that tended to them\ +Daffodils no matter how beautiful\ +She would not have traded his company for