Last but not least, here’s our (optional) prompt for the day. Begin by reading e e cummings’ poem [somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond]. This is a pretty classic love poem, so well-known that it has spawned at least one silly meme. Today’s prompt challenges you to also write a love poem, one that names at least one flower, contains one parenthetical statement, and in which at least some lines break in unusual places.

I have never quite understood how
but your being makes me bloom
Like mint flowers- a soft 
tender purple, looking up boldly at the sky.
There is little that I need. 

Your smile nourishes me
like rays of warm spring sunshine.
And your touch soothes
me like cool water 
in a mountain stream.

I carry 
your quiet essence with me.
whereever I go. Some say 
I'm like a breath of fresh air, 
refreshing, others find me stimulating.

Some say I liven things up
with my mere presence
Others say, I add a touch of exotic
to the ordinary. They say 
it's me but, I know, it's really you.

It may seem hard to believe
but I wilt when you're not around
like mint in winter
I don't need you to be 
beside me or close even. 

As long as 
we're in the same realm,
it feels enough.