Peony Piety
Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem
A proper reverence for petals should
Be kept, especially for pink and white
Ones, peonies. Perhaps a veil-like hood
Should be required for viewing these, a rite
For venerating blooms required. A priest
Might ring a rose quartz bell. Small grails (white gold)
Could be deployed in rituals the east
Might forge, stick incense for white smoke be sold
Outside the temples where a samurai
Would take his armor off before he prayed
Before bouquets of white and pink, “Banzai!”
His paean as he set off to invade.
..The Vatican beatifying them
….Might stick in holy water each green stem.