Ekphrastic poetry: Please Forget Me Not

On a bed of green algae

in the river Ewell

She sways, gently

As reeds stand erect in the breeze

Delicate neck framed

with garland of withered violets

fingers splayed

as fritillary floats between cloth and water’s edge

Scattered meadowsweet

Bittersweet

Red poppy with black seed

Pheasants’s eye floating near pansies

Dragonfly hovers over open mouth,

Translucent rainbow wings disappear

unkissed

Please forget me not