I love red poppies! Imperial red poppies!
Sun-worshippers are they;
Gladly as trees live through a hundred summers
They live one little day.
I love red poppies! Impassioned scarlet poppies!
Ever their strange perfume
Seems like an essence brewed by fairy people
From an immortal bloom.
I love red poppies! Red, silken, swaying poppies!
Deep in their hearts they keep
A magic cure for woe - a draught of Lethe -
A lotus-gift of sleep.
I love red poppies! Soft silver-stemmed, red poppies,
That from the rain and sun
Gather a balm to heal some earth-born sorrow,
When their glad day is done.
A Song Of Poppies
Virna Sheard
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Poem topics: fairy, magic, people, rain, silver, sleep, sorrow, earth, deep, glad, gift, essence, soft, lotus, strange, bloom, imperial, sun, live, Valentine's Day, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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