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# Blue Morning Glory
- URL: https://poetry101.love/blue-morning-glory/
- Published: 2025-01-27T04:28:22.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-27T04:28:22.000Z
- Description: by Anne Pitkin
- Author: Melissa Anderson
- Tags: #Import 2026-11-04 19:11

Voracious, yes. But when you see it,  
shy blue flowers blaring like trumpets in spite of themselves,  
center star shaped and yellow; when it startles you,  
early in the morning, all over a white picket fence, say,  
in Massachusetts, you might think “triumphal,” “prodigal,”  
“awake.”

Of course you don’t want it in your rose garden  
among all the pruned, the decorous bushes. You don’t want it  
in the vegetables, for it will romp through the tomatoes,  
beans and peas, will leave no room on the ground, or even  
in the air, for the leafy lettuces and cabbages soberly  
queueing up in their furrows. It will hog all the sky it can get  
knowing as it does what enormous thirst is satisfied by blue.

Father Michael says Follow the God of abundance  
Says we hurry from the moment’s wealth  
for fear it will be taken. Think of this:

the morning glory has been blossoming for so long  
without permission that in some gardens it is no longer censored.  
What does that tell you? See how it opens its tender throats  
to a world that can sting it, how, without apology for its excess,  
it blooms and blooms, though even yet  
it seems surprised.

[Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spirituality](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cries%5Fof%5Fthe%5FSpirit/TKNZAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0&kptab=getbook&ref=poetry101.love). United States, Beacon Press, 1991