Classic and Contemporary Poetry

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.