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Yellow

June 24, 2015 by Betty Hayes Albright

If these flowers

have a name

I don’t want to know.

Label not

my wild ones,

just let me watch them grow.

(photo taken yesterday)

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on June 24, 2015 at 3:25 pm | Reply Cynthia Jobin

Ah, yes, Betty, I’m with you, there. Why do we think we know something, just because we know its given name?

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- on June 24, 2015 at 6:12 pm | Reply Betty Hayes Albright
  
  I agree, Cynthia. It’s human nature to name things but sometimes it detracts from the sheer beauty of nature itself.
  
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on June 24, 2015 at 3:26 pm | Reply joannagilmanhyde

I appreciate your simple and timely poem. I am opposed to psychiatric labelling — it is of no use and does great harm.

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- on June 24, 2015 at 6:19 pm | Reply Betty Hayes Albright
  
  True – we tend to pigeon hole everything, and who is to say what is a weed (connotation = ugly) and what is an exquisite flower? Thanks for your feedback!
  
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- on June 24, 2015 at 9:24 pm | Reply Betty Hayes Albright
  
  P.S. I meant to add something about the psychiatric labeling – and I agree 100%! All too common and damaging. Thank you again, Joanna.
  
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  - on June 25, 2015 at 1:28 am | Reply journeyintopoetry
    
    Fabulous Betty! We are so hung up on names aren’t we?! And if we know the Latin ones we can really show off!! 🙂
    
    I have sorted WP out again and it’s silly unfollowing antics!
    
    I had a very bad fall on Monday evening, badly wrenched back, huge bruise on thigh and grazed and bruised shoulder. Will explain more when I reply to your email. Sending hugs xxx
    
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    - on June 25, 2015 at 11:58 am | Reply Betty Hayes Albright
      
      Oh no, Christine! I’m sorry to hear about another fall, and that sounds like a particularly bad one. Sounds so painful – please take care and heal up fast! No rush with email – just when you feel up to it. xxoo
      
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      - on June 25, 2015 at 12:32 pm | Reply journeyintopoetry
        
        Thank you Betty xxxx
        
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on June 25, 2015 at 12:10 pm | Reply willowdot21

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- on July 21, 2015 at 4:23 pm | Reply Betty Hayes Albright
  
  Cool song – a regular “study” in yellow. (Didn’t think I cared for “Cold Play” but I like this one, thank you Willow! 🙂 )
  
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  - on July 21, 2015 at 10:24 pm | Reply willowdot21
    
    One of my favourites 🙂
    
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on July 18, 2015 at 9:30 am | Reply Ben Naga

Thank you for this, Betty. 🙂

LEXICOGRAPHY

Once contact
Replaces labels
– Like costume
– Like mask
Fall away

For why need
One name or other?

Ill-judged attempts
To define or
Describe

For shame: betrayal
Of such an intimacy
Or such unwarranted
Self-aggrandisement

Gratitude and mystery
Sprout soaring wings
Escape the net of words

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- on July 21, 2015 at 4:26 pm | Reply Betty Hayes Albright
  
  And thank you for that one, Ben. I especially love those last 3 lines. Says it all!
  
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  - on July 22, 2015 at 6:57 am | Reply Ben Naga
    
    Glad You like it. Thanks again for the inspiration. 🙂
    
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on August 12, 2015 at 6:19 am | Reply annajanemark

I like those, too, and I always mow around them!

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