Thistle Flower Poem. Of a liminal tint blue-green stems covered in pale hair thousands still tender but others older each branch ending in a bright ball of spikes soon to bloom. The second stanza of the poem describes the thistles as something that keeps coming back almost like it is invincible.
When the fires of summer come. Poems on The Beauty of Flowers. Full white the Bourbon lily blows And fairer haughty Englands rose.
When the fires of summer come.
It has been use for 500 years for heraldry. Blue-black pressure suggests wounds as you would relate blue-black colours to bruises which creates the image that the thistles are so powerful despite pressure put on it it does not get affected so much. It cheers me resting on the way-side stones. Thistles by Ted Hughes - Famous poems famous poets.