Poppy in the Rain

Poppy in the Rain
Opening bud

Rain Drops
Caught on young poppy bud

Poppy
Buds and capsule

Abiogenesis
Origin of Life
The auto focus of my little Lumix
simply refused to cooperate -
still, I really liked this scene at the lily pond.
After all, it may have taken a microscope
to catch the action of living things
in what appeared outwardly only inanimate matter.

"Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare,
And left the flushed print in a poppy there:
Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came,
And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame."

"Love! I fall into the claws of Time:
But lasts within a leavèd rhyme
All that the world of me esteems --
My withered dreams, my withered dreams."

Quoted from "The Poppy"
By Francis Thompson
((1859 - 1907))

Photographed by Merisi
in the Alpine Garden
of the Belvedere
May 2009