- O sweet spontaneous
- earth how often have
- the
- doting
- fingers of
- purient philosophers pinched
- and
- poked
- thee,
- has the naughty thumb
- of science prodded
- thy
- beauty.
- how
- often have religions taken
- thee upon their scraggy knees
- squeezing and
- buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive
- gods
- (but
- true
- to the incomparable
- couch of death thy
- rhythmic
- lover
- thou answerest
- them only with
- spring)
- e.e. cummings
The beautiful sharp contrast of ice and sunshine – an early-morning shot of an icy winter’s morning in my garden.
This Aloe ferox just keeps on delivering delight after delight every winter, providing much-needed sustenance of her sweet nectar to Sunbirds and insects and also making splashes of bright colour in an otherwise drab landscape.
This hardy succulent is indigenous to South Africa.
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