Six-petaled lily and five-fold rose,
tall spirals of prettiness
now garden grown
yet rotating round order
symmetry-driven,
where went the wildness those
flowers had known ?

Laboratory-tamed by generation
pale blooms tho still twining
seek lost fragrance
for from ****-sterile loam
growth begets fight,
as with freedom abated, disease
makes itself home.

So beautifully tasteless becomes
cultivation when plants
yield big money
not left to live out unpampered,
each to its own,
as does nature's floral abundance
found in all hedgerows.