Its presence unusual and rare it is
a jewel whose colour and facets
capture the sun illuminating its
perfection of form, a glowing tribute
to nature's fastidious care of her
creatures, this orchid growing
amongst other wildflowers gracing
them with its presence, not rude
and fundamental but gracious
as befits one whose existence is
of an aristocratic sisterhood deigning
now and again in an impulse of
noblesse oblige to share presence
adjoining a forest with those of a
common heritage crowding about
the statuesque green pedestal on which
grows the orchid; thistle and pilotweed
their floral gold and mauve accenting
the queen's vibratingly deep pink.
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