Tulips.

Yesterday Mr B brought me these wonderful tulips back from the market and so I thought I'd share them with Liz over at Rose Vignettes for Fresh Cut Friday and also with The Tablescaper for Seasonal Sundays.


  Tulip Haiku.

Rainbow of Colors

Field of Tulips Never-Ending.

Bright and Beautiful.

~ by Marie M. Daniels

The tulip and the butterfly

Appear in gayer coats than I:

Let me be dressed fine as I will,

Flies, worms, and flowers

exceed me still.

~ Isaac Watts

Bring the tulip and the rose,

While their brilliant beauty glows.

~ Eliza Cook

A Tulip Garden ~ by Amy Lowell.

 

Guarded within the old red wall's embrace,

Marshalled like soldiers in gay company,

The tulips stand arrayed. Here infantry

Wheels out into the sunlight. What bold grace

Sets off their tunics, white with crimson lace!

Here are platoons of gold-frocked cavalry,

With scarlet sabres tossing in the eye

Of purple batteries, every gun in place.

Forward they come, with flaunting colours spread,

With torches burning, stepping out in time

To some quick, unheard march. Our ears are dead,

We cannot catch the tune. In pantomime

Parades that army. With our utmost powers

We hear the wind stream through a bed of flowers.

Many thanks to Felicity for sharing these wonderful tulip poems.

Click here to see her amazing tulip images.