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Title: regrettably, it is sometimes the business of yellow flowers to burn in summer
Author: Ray Heinrich
Date Submitted: 2/16/2009
Email: ray@wordbiscuit.com

 
Poem: __regrettably, it is sometimes the business of yellow flowers to burn in summer__

sometimes this is what it means to be a yellow flower
born late
of a cool, wet spring
only to be found by summer

sometimes
to be a yellow flower
means
to burn in summer
desperately
dreaming of spring

when burning in summer
most yellow flowers
desperately
dream of spring
while others
driven mad
will claim to be the sun
...