Adoring

    Adoring

    ― After Mary Oliver

    While out for a walk
    my dog likes to stop
    and smell the flowers.

    Oh I know dogs
    like to smell
    for other dogs.

    But she likes
    to have her wet nose
    touching the blooms.

    Like a bee
    moving from blossom
    to blossom.

    I have to wonder
    if she loves the flowers
    as much as I do.

— Dan Hardison