N E C T A R  +  B L O O M

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YOUR AUTHENTIC STORy • in the language of flowers

 
 
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Adventure along with #nectarandbloom the #poetflorist to see our latest creations, which are often paired with original verse captions inspired by the petals + palettes of our design studio. We love your comments and messages too!

 
 
 
//// The day in a word was wind // and wind took my hair // for a maypole, took off its clothes and then // as though wind ever clothed // tore gold, cored holes between gap teeth of threes, whistled as reeds pinned between thumbs, have you ever done // that, strung a blade of grass between two palms // and made that awful duck squawk teethed green // a shout of summer as it slips // from shoulders, falls as fall, well, // falls, bare and goosebumped, rosy // and asterisked, like smoke // on a sweater’s weave weeks after the bonfire //// #nectarandbloom #poetflorist #nectarpoems #poemsbynectarandbloom #poetryofflowers #ekphrasis #poetry // . . Beautiful photography by @mikethezier 👏👏👏 . PS: You guys, it is my poet-florist-nerd uncontrollable JOY creating poems for flowers and flowers as poems to share with you, and I must tell you I appreciate so much the reactions to them you share with me. Thank you 💛💛💛. For anyone mystified by poetry, which is an enormously diverse art form, what do you want to know?? 👂
//// Reach, reach, and when nothing // else is, reach, when all // seems far reach, and reach // for the thrilling zillion bells of reaching, and reach // more as though a cyclone hurls its fringe at your heels // reach, because all of it, a watermelon tinted // dress or litter of cloud, is the joy //and pain and beauty of being, here, // in this body, reaching with these // magic senses, being // home, and so vastly alive //// #nectarandbloom #poetflorist #nectarpoems #poemsbynectarandbloom #poetryofflowers #poetry
//// Ah, again—rose-fog river with your everything I try // to articulate curled into scrolls and etchings, your rune braille, the vows // of texture elude language such // that we touch to converse, taste the utter // and coriander of your // looks, citrine and befuddled as these costumes // you pitch, like voices, moments at a time //// #nectarandbloom #poetflorist #nectarpoems #poemsbynectarandbloom #poetryofflowers #poems // Photograph by @samerica.studios 🙌
B E L I E F // I believe we are all here to create beauty, to experience beauty, and to share beauty. Beauty is healing. Beauty is bountiful. Beauty is universal in the sense that through it we experience something remarkable that moves us emotionally (or physically) and gives us something to pass through, however vast or brief, that marks our ever unfolding evolution and that informs what comes next. Beauty is in the body, as the body is our home and our great tool for creativity. Beauty is in the way we reach out to one another, and beauty is in the moments we make ourselves vulnerable enough to allow someone else to share with us what we seek and may have been too proud or afraid before to ask. Beauty is openness, is presence, is acceptance—not in the sense of settling but in the sense of celebrating what is, wild or simple as it may be. // - #nectarandbloom #poetflorist #nectarnotes #notesfromnectarandbloom #lovenotes #beauty // Thank you to the love of my life @carr.cavender for being such a patient IG hubby when it comes to moments with bouquets that need to be captured.
//// Cornucopia, of and always of // plenty, a feast who grows between // verses, harmony the weft to the warp // of melody, a spread in colors smashed // to shapes we can eat, and lost // as we were once in thought, again // returns the crisp rattle of canopy, the rich // cardamom of our willingness to wake to it //// #nectarandbloom #poetflorist #nectarpoems #poemsbynectarandbloom #cornucopia #harvest #poetryofflowers // Photography by @samerica.studios . See more in our Journal as Nectar + Bloom explores the poem that is autumn—link in bio 💛🤗🍁🍂
I’ve been a writer and poet all my life, pursued poetry through a master’s degree and beyond, and now, in this chapter of life, in this creative and dynamic work owning a business devoted to wedding and event floristry, my quill pen is also a blooming stem, and I am writing the love poems and heart stories of my couples and clients as they step into incredibly significant new chapters in their lives. I am in love with and honored by this chance to write in flowers, which themselves provide another medium by which to craft meaning and invite experience (two things I hugely enjoy). Thank you all for joining me here as we write the journey of it all, as the poem verses, as the story weaves. You are part of this creative endeavor! // #nectarandbloom #poetflorist #nectarnotes #notesfromnectarandbloom #lovenotes #poetryofflowers // Photograph by @samerica.studios 💛🙌🌸