Today’s challenge was to ‘write a poem titled “The ________ of ________,” where the first blank is a very particular kind of plant or animal, and the second blank is an abstract noun.’
The Lilies of Happiness
Consider the lilies in the fields
opening to the sky.
Contemplate the longing inside
you to be among them,
to lie down and breathe
the fragrance, to be washed
clean by that beauty.
When you think about your life
and where you can find
the happiness you crave
so badly and the love
you yearn to give and receive,
look to the lilies in the field.
They know not of struggling,
suffering, desiring, longing.
They are as they are – at peace.
Walk to the fields, notice
what you notice along the way,
talk to the lilies and ask them
where is this happiness.
Listen carefully, then go back home
and eat what you want to eat
and do what you want to do.
LyndyH 