…Field of Colours

\ colours have their story.

…from seed to flower…embedded code

\ has all their details hidden

…but conditions and seasonal rhyme

\ shape their petals

\ their release of colour shade and height

\ grow slow, tinged

…with the pressures of growing up.

\ So, their secret code is influenced

… by their ‘now’;

…the colours are seen

… but what is not,

…is their history!

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prompt: a colourful field of poppies photographed Italian Pilgrimage 2019; my response written at Patiki, Whanganui NZ, May 2021