A Salute To Summer... To Wild Tiger Lilies!

 

 

No solstice or calendar date is needed when its summertime again in southern
 New Jersey...  it's officially here when beautiful, bright orange Tiger Lilies
 bloom overnight in back yards and along back roads and stream beds
 and in the meadows all around! 

 

Wild Tiger Lilies
Image courtesy/Flees Photos/Fine Art America

I wonder where you got your name

 

How did you get your claim to fame?

A petal mane curling from your face

Vivid orange with speckled brown traces.

 

I listen for your frightening fierce roar

There is a silence that trumpets evermore.

 

Examining closely...fearing threatening growls,

I see delicate beauty, no blood-thirsty jowls.

Your ferocious reputation is exaggerated 

Only your tamed loveliness is accentuated.

Your countenance gently lifts to sunbeams

Among the cattails near a shallow stream.

 

 

"Tiger Lily"
(2008)
A poem by Theresa Ann Moore
Courtesy/Poem Hunter