Thursday, October 31, 2024

Daisy Chain

Catholic children in my youth
hustled beneath stained glass windows,
trod on green and gracious clover
to make daisies into a crown
of thorns.

Later, hippies made flowers

into bracelets and beads

as they drank from the pagan horn

and rolled in the wet grass

from twilight to hedonistic

morn.

 

Let beauty be beauty.

Let glorious whites and yellows

burst forth like the suns

they were meant forever

to be.

 

Let ecstasy run down the pulse,

thrum the silk and satin skin,

drive the many-chambered heart.

Let ecstasy be the child

of ecstasy.


~William Hammett



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