Teesta Review: A Journal of Poetry
Call for Submissions for November 2020 Issue
Deadline for Submission: 30th October, 2020.
Daffodils
inspired William Wordsworth to scribe loftily that “I
Wandered Lonely As A Cloud” that turned out to be his best-known lyric poem. George Herbet’s, ”A Wreathe”, Alfred Lord Tennyson’s ”The Flower”, and A.E.Housman’s
“The Lent Lily” are a few of many great poetry written with flower as
their perpetual theme. Just like poetry, each flower is
a delicate bloom, be it planted in a formal garden or grow by itself on a waste
land. The buds just open up and turn towards the light and each petal is a delicate work of art very
much like poetry because each word in a
poetry is a beautiful inscription of a poet. Flower hues are medicine for
the soul
whereas poets words are comfort for the mind.
Scientifically,
the primary purpose of a flower is reproduction. Flowers are like women, they
ensure that lives and living continue
and in life there are stories to be told, poetry to be written.
I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD
William Wordsworth
I
wandered lonely as a cloud
That
floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all
at once I saw a crowd,
A host,
of golden daffodils;
Beside
the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering
and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous
as the stars that shine
And
twinkle on the milky way,
They
stretched in never-ending line
Along the
margin of a bay:
Ten
thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing
their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves
beside them danced; but they
Out-did
the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet
could not but be gay,
In such a
jocund company:
I
gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What
wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft,
when on my couch I lie
In vacant
or in pensive mood,
They
flash upon that inward eye
Which is
the bliss of solitude;
And then
my heart with pleasure fills,
And
dances with the daffodils.
The primary purpose of a flower is reproduction. Since the flowers are the reproductive organs of plant, they mediate the joining of the sperm, contained within pollen, to the ovules — contained in the ovary.
Poetry , articles, short stories, essays, photos are invited on the theme.
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Teesta Review Volume 3 No 2
will be edited by Normawar Ahmad Marzuki