When you come to call one day
Make your wishes clear with a nosegay
Depending on the weekday
There’s so much you could say
In my secret heart I pray
You’ll arrive on love’s day
On Saturn’s day
New bathed, with a Belladonna spray
Good intentions might be gainsaid
On the Sun’s day
With a mistletoe you say
I wanna kiss and cuddle all day
On the Moon’s day
Iris and Lily may
A message of beauty portray
On Mars’s day
Basil good wishes convey
How steadfast you’ll stay
On Mercury’s day
Fragrant lavender portray
The grace of our dancing sway
On Jupiter’s day
Dandelion makes us feel young and gay
Like singing musicals on Broadway
On Venus’s day
If you choose Roses and Hibiscus nosegay
I know the talking bouquet flowers say
I want to love and cherish you to my last living day
© REDCAT
Written for What day is it anyway? at dVerse, and Weekly Scribblings #5: A Mouthful Of Flowers at Poet’s and Storytellers United.
What a gorgeous merging of the two prompts! I especially love; “On Jupiter’s day/Dandelion makes us feel young and gay/Like singing musicals on Broadway.” You have a beautiful way of expressing emotions through imagery :) Thank you so much for writing! 💝💝
Beautifully done! You’ve chosen the flowers for each verse so well to match the nature of the Deity concerned. I love the last verse best of all.
Oh, that’s lovely. I love how you’ve subverted that original dialect poem and turned it into something graceful and loving. I love the way you’ve linked the flowers and the days of the week, and I enjoyed the reminder of the day deities (dayities???) – we have gods in our mouths all the time and forget about it.
Flowers do help us to convey our love, don’t they?
Nice, clever, floral, charming 🌹
I like the association of each day with a special bouquet.
How beautifully written! I love the symbolic language of flowers.
I learned something about the deities of each day. Cool!
I do love the flowers of the day… though Belladonna I mostly associate with poison
I like how you connected all these flowers with Deities. Very creative.
Sigh, may everyday bring a bouquet…love it
What a thoughtful poem filled with information! Do you sometimes wonder from whence cometh the term “nosegay”?
the pairing of planets and their flowers is so creative, love the genius here and the poem is gorgeous
I love the title; nosegay is a word nobody uses these days and I wish they would, it tickles the senses! I enjoyed the magical tone of this poem, like a spell, the way it begins with Saturn’s Day and each day has a fragrant plant. My visual favourite the dandelion, but want to inhale the bouquet of rose and hibiscus.