Lyric Poem · Hope
What the Lily Knows
The lily spent the winter
as a brown and folded thing,
asking nothing, promising less,
asleep beneath the spring.
And then, on no one's schedule,
it opened, white and whole —
the oldest news still breaking new:
what looks like loss is not the whole.
Original poem © QuillOak — free for personal use.
“What the Lily Knows” by The QuillOak Editors — quilloak.com/poems/what-the-lily-knows
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