So that’s what you look like,
So that’s where you are.
Indeed you are unworldly,
Surrealistic almost, but truly a star…
In your large yellow slippers
And delicate three-pronged, burgundy hat…
You exceed all my expectations,
I’m certain of that…
You are much bigger for a start,
Growing on steep wooded hillsides…
Whilst for my part,
I can only stare in awe, consider the natural law
That, by chance, framed your personality,
Shaped your subtle colour, style, your fire…
The most exotic being of the plant world
I have ever seen.…magnificent I should say…
And I doubt that another meeting
Would be so fine as this, our first…
Here amongst the solitary, sunlit woods,
And the red-barked pines that point to the sky…
Yet protect your tenderness and beauty,
One so rare, as you are shy…
This first day of June…
Surely a day… to inspire.
*Cypripedium calceolus
