Lesson from the Wildflowers

I poem for your Wednesday. Day 95 of (mostly unedited) daily writing/sharing

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Jotting from my journal. Day #95 of (mostly unedited) daily writing/sharing

Lesson from the Wildflowers

So many rules, so many
opinions on how to do it right,
how to do it wrong—

so much nagging noise.

Aren't we all dizzy and dying 
from listening 
to the voices of others?

Meanwhile, the wildflowers
simply blossom, splashing 
the mountain meadow with marvel

without following 
a single rule. 

I stand in the midst 
of their magnificence,
palms together, head bent—

steeping myself in 
     their wildness, gathering 
up their color 

and splashing it here, watching 
as it bleeds all over 
the once-blank page.

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