Heavenly Blue
Dear child, how welcome you are this day
an array of flowers greet you.
Enchanted by the beautiful sky blue petals
you have become as a bee to the Morning Glory
Now leading your mother by the hand
here you stand at the garden gate
Dear child, Rainbow child! So many colours
reflected in your delighted eyes.
How entrancing the swaying purple Fox gloves
amongst the Poppies and Daisies.
How pleasing the velvet red Roses
beside Geraniums of gentian blue
Dear child have you become a butterfly!
flitting from Rose to Bergamot
Twirling and dancing between Marigolds and Lupins,
then opening your arms wide, as if to embrace them.
The singing Blackbird cannot compete
with such gaiety and laughter!
Dear child, how clear your vision
and pure your joy!
You have charmed both mother and gardener
this fine summers day
With wonderment we gaze upon you
as you gaze upon the flowers
Dear child, I wish for you a happy life
and that one day you will become a gardener too,
For then if a child's smiling face
should appear at your garden gate,
You can remember this auspicious day
when the smiling child.....Was you.