Natural Love

When Love Blooms

I gave to her a honey comb
to brush her golden hair,
and placed on her a daisy chain
around her neck so fair.
Foxgloves I gave to warm her hands
and blue bells for her wrist,
then from the mountain air I stole
the pine fresh perfumed mist.
A dress made up of fallen leaves
and stitched with silk worm thread,
and there a spider spun a veil
to place upon her head.
I gave to her a sweet bouquet
of fresh assorted blooms,
and took her hand and gave to her
a ring of wild mushrooms.
Beneath the stars I gave my heart
and to me she gave her kiss,
as two lives where bound as one
in the act of wedded bliss.

Author's Note

Contest best new poet

Reviews

[AJ Kristiansen]

Well done Inyourshadow! Really beautiful, fresh and with a sense of innocence and wonder about it! Bestowing those gifts upon your love.... and what better way to crown love, than with the bounty of nature? Wonderful!!

[Neva Flores Smith - Cha..]

Your talent is incredibly diverse. I never know what I am going to read when I click on your name. This is divine!

[E.V. Black]

Oh my god, this is like something I would imagine Shakespeare to write. The beauty in it truly is natural, and I love how you wove in the intended natural themes. One can think of this in terms of romance, but it doesn't have to be about love. It can be about becoming one with nature, which is what I thought when I finished reading it. Nature provides so much for us. I love that you harnessed the double entendre in this, especially the unification via "two lives [were] bound as one/in the act of wedded bliss."

Shadow, you really do have a gift and are one of THE BEST poets I know. I can never say that enough because you are. You have an unspeakable gift. I used to give better reviews when I was younger (I'm a little rusty), and I wish that I could say more. What more is there to say? This is wonderful.

Except, just fix "where" to "were in the second to last line and you'll be good. ;)