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INTREPID FLOWERING by LOIS CANFIL

First Line: IF THERE ARE FIVE WHITE BLOSSOMS
Last Line: OR A CLEFT, FLOWERING TREE.
Subject(s): FLOWERS; HEARTS; TREES;
If there are five white blossoms
On a storm-broken tree,
I will salute beauty
Born in extremity.

The pulses beat with labour
To make the life-stream go
Up through torn branches
Until a flower blow.

I will uncap to courage
Whenever I shall see
A fissured heart that burgeons,
Or a cleft, flowering tree.



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