1610 - Call of the Wild

 

The Sunday Whirl presents twelve words for us to use in a creative writing piece.  

This weeks words are:

trample crack swept untethered hum urge scrawled bees sky ritual leap brambles

Call of the Wild

“People from a planet without flowers would think 

we must be mad with joy the whole time 

to have such things about us.” 

― Iris Murdoch

Hollyhocks, foxgloves, 

Daisies and delphiniums.

I do so love that word.

Phlox are there too,

Both the plant and as a collective noun 

For the floral herd.

Brambles too, of course.

The polite term 

For this feral floral fantasy

Would be untethered.

Untrampled, unswept, unleashed.

Bees, butterflies and other insects

Hum and buzz, crawl, climb and nibble.

Mother nature sees an opportunity,

A crack in the restraints, 

In the desire to impose order and ritual,

And leaps at the chance to run wild.

No need to urge her on,

The sky is calling.

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