The Blooming Hydrangea

The sweet, syrupy fragrance

of the French-lace hydrangea

blooms, ripely white shading 

to pink, send their perfume 

across the garden to draw 

to those blowsy, compound 

blossoms of sheer perfection 

the frenzied bliss of butterflies, 

wasps and bees drunk on the 

nectared pleasure of sumptuously 

copious offerings of pollen, 

sending the attentive wing-whirring

suitors into deeply delerious

ecstasies of pure rapture.