Urban discoveries...

Today's prompt challenges us to write a poem "based on a 'walking archive.'" In other words, a poem based on interesting things we have gathered while on a walk.

As I am not able to go for a walk during this time of lockdown, I will write about a beautiful flower in my garden.

Inca lilly. © Photograph by Andrea Vermaak

           

Inca lily

At first, I thought you were a weed,

I nearly pulled you out,

but then you bloomed

when the summer came:

four soft salmon-pink heads

in a roundabout,

your brown freckles

popping 

against bright yellow;

what joy that I kept you!

Andrea Vermaak © 2020