Not long ago, I read this SMBC comic. It made me write this sonnet.
Every day I look forward to seeing
Your shape beneath the yellow fever trees
For a short moment, I feel you freeing
This heart within me my chest seems to squeeze.
Sighing, I admire the dappled sunlight
Kissing your pink blushing tips and your leaves,
And though my clumsy descriptions will slight
I weave in my mind what my eye perceives.
And as I compose, I find new colours
In your trumpets facing every which way
Has every part been described by scholars?
Or have you kept some secrets to this day?
Oh belladonna, you enrapture me
Scentless, your curving petals capture me.