The illustration in my collage is by Maginel Wright Enright (1881–1966), from the story Sunshine Flowers by Clara Ingram Judson. Maginel Wright Enright was the younger sister of the renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
“On long, serene midsummer days
Of ripening fruit and yellowed grain,
How sweetly, by dim woodland ways,
In tangled hedge or leafy lane,
Fair wild rose thickets, you unfold
Those pale pink stars with hearts of gold!”
- from ‘Wild Roses’ by Edgar Fawcett (1847-1904) #wildflowers
REFLECTIONS
In the slick black eye
Of the catbird, the lush pinks;
In the frog pond, the darkening sky.
Distant, the red sun sinks.
Lie low, my laden heart, and fly —
Never contradictory,
Wingéd, like a #victory,
Crimson where the sea-lights die.
#vss365#poem#poetry#summer
The Dormouse lay happy, his eyes were so tight
He could see no chrysanthemums, yellow or white.
And all that he felt at the back of his head
Were delphiniums (blue) and geraniums (red).
~A.A.Milne
#flowers
Gold between the poplars
An old moon shows;
Silver up the star-way
The full moon rose;
Silver down the star-way
The old moon crept…
And, one by another,
The grey fields slept.
~A.A.Milne
"Green was the silence,
wet was the light,
the month of June
trembled like a butterfly."
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
[images: Hasui Kawase / Koson Ohara]
June is named for Juno, the Roman queen of the gods, protector of love, marriage, and motherhood. One of the birth flowers associated with this month is the rose, which is often called the “queen of flowers” and is a timeless symbol of love. Wishing you a joyful new month!
Remembering Emily Dickinson, who died 140 years ago today having changed the life of language, with her exquisite love letters, those living poems of the heart: https://t.co/NGfrLPgEex