By the window
there’s a pot
of Paperwhites
as sweet
to the scent as
they are
to the sight,
one then two
then three
even four
and five of a kind
with their eyes
so bright,
some looking out
and
some looking in.
©Artwork and writing, unless otherwise indicated, are the property of Diane M Denton. Please request permission to reproduce or post elsewhere with a link back to bardessdmdenton. Thank you.
Wonderful poem and pictures! 🙂
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Thank you so much for your visit and comment! Glad to welcome you here again. Hope you are well.
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So simple and elegant – the words just flow – I can close my eyes and visualize the Paperwhites in my mind.
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Hi MaryEllen! Happy to “see” you here! So glad you enjoyed what you saw and read. Thank you!
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If I were a Paperwhite, I would be the one looking in. 🙂
This is sweet. ❤ The flowers are lovely, too.
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And so would I! Thank you so much for your visit and kind comment.
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Very Lovely!! God bless you today!
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Thank you, Caddo! Blessings right back at you!
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I wish I had your talent for penning nature’s simple beauty into verse, lovely words yet again
Andrea xoxo
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Hi Andrea, and thank you for your visit and generous comment! But I beg to differ…you have tremendous talent…a powerful and poetic way with words. I love your work!
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Pure winter sunlight! Sweet verse, sweet bright-eyed flowers, sweet narcissus perfume!
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Hi Kathyn! Your lovely comment evokes their brightness and fragrance and sweet appearance even more!
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Thank you for your very nice visit to my site, via Jane and ‘High River Arts’–and I must say it is enormously pleasurable to see a painting of ‘paper whites’ at this time of year! You’ve got them just right, to the point where I can catch their perfume. And the poem has their essence in its verse.
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It was my pleasure to discover your work! Thank you so much for visiting my blog and your lovely comment. It means alot coming from such a talented artist.
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I’d love to have some paperwhites. I love your poem and sweet picture. 🙂
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Hi Val! Yes, Paperwhites have a personality as well as lovely scent and appearance! Thanks for the visit and kind comment.
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Simply delightful!
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Hi Laurel and thank you!
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Bardess, some lily-whites used to bloom outdoors right underneath the bright red berries of holly in Macon, GA the week after Christmas! This would happen next to retaining walls facing south and fully sun-exposed. Some do seem to look inwards upon themselves, while right next to others ooking outward. Sort of like a lot of people we know. Your artwork is gorgeous, as always. Such talent!
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What a beautiful welcome sight those lily whites must’ve been, Granbee!
There is so much wisdom in nature, isn’t there? Like these sweet little blooms knowing enough to look in both directions…well, all around.
Thanks for your visit and generous words!
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This is just lovely, Diane. The lines ‘some looking out and some looking in’ immediately evoked for me how nature is both inspiring to look at from a purely aesthetic point of view, but can also inspire us to ‘look inwards’ too. But most of all, and as Christine said, it is ‘so beautiful in its simplicity’.
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Hello and thank you! ‘how nature is both inspiring to look at from a purely aesthetic point of view, but can also inspire us to ‘look inwards’ too.’ It’s like watching my cats, their reactions and interactions, when they are alert or restless and other times all curled up and content.
I just keep going back to nature for inspiration…it seems to ‘cover’ everything, doesn’t it?
This post is actually a page from the flower journal I’m hoping to self-publish soon. Blessings!
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Diane,
This is so beautiful in its simplicity!
“Some looking out
and some looking in”
Perfect, its just how they are!
I am having problems with my computer today. Yesterday I put a post up about awards and I feel really bad because I forgot to mention the Soul Song Award you passed to me! WP won’t let me rectify it yet so please bear with me, I will edit it when I can. I just wanted you to know in case you read the post and you are not mentioned. Sorry! 🙂 My inbox also will not work; I am receiving nothing! Aaarrgh! x
Love
Christine x
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Thank you, Christine!
Please don’t worry about the Soul-Song award…it made me very happy to pass it on to you.
Love and hugs, Diane
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My favorite line is the “some looking out and some looking in” – it’s similar to a quote I love about how perspective changes absolutely everything. Beautiful art here!
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Yes, perspective is very key…these flowers seem to intrinsically know that. Thank you for your visit and kind comment! I will be over to catch up on your posts very soon.
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Very lovely poem, and artwork – wow!!!
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Thanks so much, Betty! So glad you enjoyed it.
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How lovely this is! It reminds me of the happy, excited feeling I get when I see my orchid blooms pop out one by one!
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Thank you, Fergiemoto! Oh, orchids…yes, a similar kind of budding and blossoming. I have a fascination with orchids, the way they reach and bend and dangle, though I’ve never grown any. One day when I have a little greenhouse…
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I love your nature insights. This is so lovely. Your posts always brighten my day. Happy Wednesday!
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Thank you, Angela! I’m honored to brighten your day and hope your Thursday is absolutely glowing!
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Hi Diane
this is so lovely 🙂 The poem as well as the beautiful artwork! (drawing?)
As I write this, I can see the paperwhites on the table here. (They are double hearted ones) for some reason they have grown almost a meter high lol.
🙂
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Hi Ina! Thanks, so glad you liked it.
So glad you have some paperwhites growing…I’ve had them grow very tall also! I gave some to a friend for Christmas and she just told me the other day that everytime she walks into her kitchen there is this soft sweet permeating scent! They are so pretty too!
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I had to check out the blog of a fellow Denton. Keep up the good work.
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Hi Pete! Thanks for your visit and comment. I left one on your blog regarding our shared last name.
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