like a flower waiting to bloom

[reflectedeve]

I haven't done a meme in a very long time, so. When you see this, post your favorite poem.

I could make a book out of favorite poems I can't choose between, but when olivia_circe was looking for a quotation about snow yesterday, I thought of this one. And hey, it's snowing here today. (Wish I had a window.)

Snow

The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was
Spawning snow and pink roses against it
Soundlessly collateral and incompatible:
World is suddener than we fancy it.

World is crazier and more of it than we think,
Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion
A tangerine and spit the pips and feel
The drunkenness of things being various.

And the fire flames with a bubbling sound for world
Is more spiteful and gay than one supposes -
On the tongue on the eyes on the ears in the palms of one's hands -
There is more than glass between the snow and the huge roses.

-Louis MacNeice