False Blue

Purple, and blue on the edge of purple. I love the rare spectacle of blooms dressed in deep jewel tones.

Lilac, Amy Lowell

Lilacs,

False blue,

White, purple,

The color of lilac.

Your great puffs of flowers

Are everywhere in my New England.

Settling sideways into the grass of an old road,

Wind-beaten, staggering under a lopsided shock of bloom,

Making poetry out of a bit of moonlight

And a hundred or two sharp blossoms.