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SweekStars 2018: Sunflowers by Daniel Helman Lee


Little imitations of the sun and its rays, bright buttercup yellow

 

Perky and mellow

 

Sold by the odd fellow

 

–

 

On the streets. From this fellow these flowers I buy, when it’s raining.

 

And he tells me sunflowers are the reigning

 

Emperor of flowers, just as the sun is the reigning emperor of skies.

 

–

 

But I whisper to him, close in his ear,

 

 At night, it’s stars that make dreams true

 

And he secretly smiles and says, that’s when the lilies bloom—

 

–

 

And while your eyes follow the streaks of shooting stars

 

The sunflowers turn their heads to see the sun set—

 

Now would you like a sunflower or a lily?

 

–

 

As always I’d like the suns, but I’d like the stars too.

 

He says, don’t bottle them for yourself that there’s none left for us

 

 And I say I wouldn’t, there’s plenty for everyone above.

 

–

 

I don’t know when, but we finally fell in love, and grew a garden of suns and moons and stars.

 

 

 


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Red Hen Press and the Los Angeles Review are proud to sponsor the 2018 SweekStars contest by publishing this year’s winners.



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