Macro Monday Bowl of Beauty

Paeonia Lactiflora (Bowl of Beauty)

Past ... a Bowl of Beauty

Written by:  Julie Brook who is a docent at the SF Botanical Gardens.

Peony, your Bowl of Beauty's giant pink petals

Surrounding a cluster of white ones fringed,

Gives me more that a twinge of aesthetic pleasure.

But why does your fragile treasure

So quickly succumb to shedding and dissolution?

Can't you  make a firmer resolution 

To keep yourself intact?

Or should I just return next Spring

to see your beauty back ...

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