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Nature's busy fingers
Far into the curtained night
Embroider wildflower motifs
For man's pure delight,
Using as her palette
Colors of sun and sky,
Bedazzling with her vivid hues
The awestruck passerby.
Life's bouquet unfolding,
Harbinger of change and time,
Entangles plants and flowers
With man's ever-living rhyme.
Wildflowers of the roadside,
Give to us the clue.
Assault us with your colors,
Let us your strength imbue.
Share your verve and beauty,
Release the soul from strife
Teach us to forever heed
The poetry of life.

- Bette Woolsey Castro
Austin, TX 1991