Elora
by Joseph Immel

A gentle wind floats into the clouds of heaven,
where a butterfly closes and opens
beside the buds and nectar breezes.

This smile lifts me into your soft eyes
while I am breathing the perfume of flowers.

In a hot summer meadow,
a bumble bee visits a flower
whose petals are my hand outstretched in the cool grass.

These tears are the warm honeysuckle raindrops
of a summer storm,
of spring opening in your sunlight.


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