Father winter
.. he did fill
the hopeful cup of
wee daffodil
with the cold
sorbet
of chill
the icing of
snowspill.
But it melted
quickly..
and soon to
the touch of
the sun
the daffodil
did thrill.
These daffodils
are not
windblown
infidels
.. but to the sun
they are fidel
DAHLIA POWER
Like Samson's hair
before severed
by Delilah
.. strongest are
the
uncut dahlias
(Jesus, Paul,
Samson took the Nazarite
vow not to eat flesh
nor to cut their hair)