The Glorious Sunflower

They're large and brassy-bold
beloved by delicate goldfinches
those graceful songbirds who
identify their own golden symbolism
of the life-giving sun in the seeds
so generously scattered for the
tiny creatures to sustain existence.
Yet glorious as their presence is
decorating the garden, bullies
they indeed are in their inimitable
manner, growing apace to produce 
a giant stalk whose presence
clearly takes precedence over the
timid claims of geraniums and daisies
with their flimsy foliage; charming
but no competition to the brash
coppery presence of the flower
accessorizing the sun, whose seed
birds in their squawking multitudes
will testify their very existence
depends upon, a raw popularity
contest that leaves lilies and
coneflowers in consternating
puzzlement as though their beauty
and function is not equally admirable.
Sunflowers have the advantage of
superb public relations -- their
magnificent size pace the glorious 
disk of their sunny seeds ripening
in the sun turns heads, influences
flight patterns, illuminates the garden.