Purple Haze

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Purple Haze...

In the National Park the wild flowers
brighten the edges of the path ways

And bring joy to the walker with camera

who snaps them from different angles
and comments on their splendour

Even a lone purple weed
fills her with rapture,
she is easily thrilled by nature...

The walkers leave the beaten track
taking a detour up the old wooden steps
looking for relatives of Murray

and in the adjacent gardens
find to their delight
a purple frenzy...
but what are they?
Can you see how the flower emerges
from a leaf blade shaft

What a stunning find,
A gardener working nearby
cannot tell us their name

So the walker picks a flower
intending to visit the nursery
in order to identify the plant
but by the time she gets it home
it has shrivelled up
unrecognisable

So it remains a
temporary purple treat
bathed in the sunlight

One day she will find its name
but in the mean time
she'll call it Purple Haze

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