Flowers Anonymous

Painting and Verse by Dr Abe V Rotor

Flowers Anonymous in acrylic by AVR 2015.  

Lady Gertrude Stein was correct after all;

You cannot define a flower but by itself;

Move over Linnaeus, Darwin, Mendel;

Science is gathering dust in the shelf. 

Wonder the DNA, the code of heredity;

Prosaic, assuming, devoid of caress. 

Neither seen nor measured nor certain

To judge the beauty of a patch of roses.

Why, a flowering weed by the roadside,

Or some lowly vine clinging in the open –

For they bring out the unseen to be seen

Of a whole new world, the Lost Garden.~