the Persian buttercup
convoluted origami on a wispy, wiry stem
petal-packed - and when turbanned twice-over
barely able to brandish the prettiest pre-eminence
to our eulogizing gaze
precocious pinks or gorgeous gaudy citrus
but surely floristry's monstrosity for bees
but where this Asian native meets Aegean sea
it inclines more to poppy and anemone
than paper powder-puff
Day 16 of NaPoWriMo 2018 and at ‘Women in Waiting’, Elizabeth has offered up the prompt: paper. Almost the first thing that came to mind were paper/ papery flowers –hence Ranunculus
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