Windflower Leaf
Windflower Leaf - meaning Summary
Persistence Amid Decay
The poem observes small windflowers and leaves as recurring arrivals carried by an ancient wind. It contrasts fragile, living renewal with the decay of human-made domes and stones broken by weather. The wind is both agent and witness, repeating and sustaining the delicate growth longer than the ruined works of stone. Ultimately the poem suggests endurance through natural cycles rather than permanence through construction.
Read Complete AnalysesThis flower is repeated out of old winds, out of old times. The wind repeats these, it must have these, over and over again. Oh, windflowers so fresh, Oh, beautiful leaves, here now again. The domes over fall to pieces. The stones under fall to pieces. Rain and ice wreck the works. The wind keeps, the windflowers keep, the leaves last, The wind young and strong lets these last longer than stones.
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