Nameless Flower
Nameless Flower - meaning Summary
Naming Cannot Contain Beauty
Nameless Flower describes a fragile, unnamed blossom the speaker tries to capture with language. The poem moves from close observation to an attempt to set word upon a word
as shelter, then to failure when the flower eludes the trap. Finally the flower's presence and love are affirmed as immediate and luminous, suggesting that some lived realities resist full containment by words.
Three white petals float above the green. You cannot think they spring from it till the fine stem’s seen. So separated each from each, And each so pure, yet at the centre here they touch and form a flower. Flakes that drop at the flight of a bird and have no name, I’ll set word upon a word to be your home. Up from the dark and jungle floor you have looked long. Now I come to lock you here in a white song. Word and word are chosen and met. Flower, come in. But before the trap is set, the prey is gone. The words are white as stone is white carved for a grave; but the flower blooms in immortal light, Being now; being love.
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