Mountain Iris streaks with dark purple veins,

yellowish-white bases.

Horsemint – wild oregano: purplish-rose flowers

with dense, spicy heads.

Colorado Columbine petals draw out long spurs

between nectared sepals.

Mountain lupine reaches up one to three feet –

petals blue to creamy-white.

Purple-fringe shows off its deep purple flowers

and yellow-tipped stamens.

The common Aspen Daisy blooms light-blue

to lavender, sometimes white.

Pasqueflowers: lavender tepals before leaves,

then feathery plumed heads.

Monkshood sepals resemble helmets, deep blue-

purple to a yellowish-green.

Mountain Harebell – Bluebell-of-Scotland: bears

single blue bell-shaped blooms.

Chiming-Bells bud pinkish-lavender in clusters —

changing colors for the bees.

Alpine Forget-Me-Not: tiny, fragrant dark-blue-purple

petals with central yellow rings.

Sky Pilot: purplish-blue clusters smell sweet or skunky

–sport bright yellow antlers.

All the species sway and play together in the wild

after visitors leave the park.

Each flower has its say about how, when and where

–quite possibly, even who.

. . . . .

Poet: Susan Powers Bourne

Source: NPS Rocky Mountain

Process: Remix and montage