Consider the Chicory

One of the things I have been spending time on since my book, Opening the Heart: Meditations on How to Be, was published is writing poems inspired by the book. This includes a poem for each of the plants used as a background for the meditations. The plants are chicory, honeysuckle berries, loosestrife, rose, and water lily. I have decided to post the poems here. The first poem I am posting is about the chicory flower. This is one of the meditations using the chicory flower, which happens to be the photograph on the back cover of the book: 

This is the poem: 

Chicory

Consider the chicory
flower in all its open 
heartedness. How it raises
itself to the sun
and to the world. It 
heralds joy and beauty. 

Consider how its
openness is like a
starburst, yet it receives 
all that nature, the world 
gives it. 

Can we show the
bravery of the chicory,
accepting what comes
our way and using it?

©2016 Kathryn  L. Samuelson