Beauty of the Sunflower

SUNFLOWER SURPRISE

I really didn’t want you there
You weren’t even sown
From a little seed the birds missed
You sprouted on your own

You offered up a nice buffet
For little chickadees
To lemon-yellow finches
And butterflies and bees

Then you gave me summer beauty
With your huge yellow crown
And shared your many visitors
Until your leaves turned brown

9/10/89 Phyllis DeWitt VanVleck

5’th … Indiana NPD 1991

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