"summer bouquet"

"rose bundle"

"rose in rue"

"shaggy bliss"

"ruffles"

"The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided 

transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry."

― Herbert Spencer

"peonies"

. . . 

"Do you also hurry, half-dressed and barefoot, into the garden, 

and softly, 

and exclaiming of their dearness, 

fill your arms with the white and pink flowers,

with their honeyed heaviness, their lush trembling, 

their eagerness

to be wild and perfect for a moment, before they are

nothing, forever?"

― Mary Oliver, from "Peonies"