if planting a butterfly garden for me,
invite white doves to flutter by for tea
inside the gazebo, set quaint table there.
don’t wonder or worry what you will wear;
dress in blush, butter yellow, or emerald sheen
like the flowers, who have no need to preen.
serve english tea with sweet cream and a scone,
listen as honeybees dance their way home.
“If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?” Matthew 6:30
Melissa hosts landscape poetics at dVerse where we explore the art of Egon Schiele. My ekphrastic rhyme is in response to his painting, House with a Bay Window in the Garden (1907)
a poem in my pocket 
Aug 27, 2026 @ 21:46:25
Nice one Lynn 👏 Your poem and picture remind me of summer evenings where my mother would serve her parents tea and scones at various places around our English garden. My chest is throbbing with the olfactory memory right now as I sit in a cafe in Thailand. Amazing.
Aug 27, 2026 @ 15:28:42
‘Very blessed surroundings’ I beg your pardon lynn!
Aug 27, 2026 @ 15:25:00
listen as honeybees dance their way home.
So much tranquility and peaceful happenings at the Gazebo with end of each day. Very blessed surroundings Jae!
Hank
Aug 27, 2026 @ 14:05:42
I love the concept ot a butterfly garden… planting for them is wonderful
Aug 27, 2026 @ 11:11:36
A wonderful poem, Lynn.
Aug 27, 2026 @ 13:57:30
Thank you, Dwight 🙂
Aug 27, 2026 @ 08:51:09
A delightful scene, Lynn. I enjoyed spending time with you in that butterfly garden.
Aug 27, 2026 @ 13:57:05
Glad you liked it, Kim!
Aug 27, 2026 @ 03:21:06
How beautiful, Lynn. May I sit there with you?
Aug 27, 2026 @ 05:39:21
Yes, dear Selma, I would like that very much!
Aug 27, 2026 @ 05:42:20
Aww 😊 💐
Aug 26, 2026 @ 20:20:09
Wow 🤩 I could see this scene
Aug 26, 2026 @ 20:33:55
Thanks, Brenda, for stopping by to read and smell the flowers!
Aug 26, 2026 @ 19:31:06
You set the scene beautifully for us to dive into the painting, Lynn! How peaceful: “serve english tea with cream and a scone,
listen as honeybees dance their way home.” I love the verse from Matthew as well. I think about it sometimes when I fall into worry.
Aug 26, 2026 @ 19:44:00
I’m glad you stopped by my garden for tea, Melissa! Thanks for the interesting prompt with Schiele’s wonderful paintings.