Uploaded on August 30, 2011

I am willowy boughs
For coolness;
I am gold-finch wings
For darkness;
I am a little grape
Thinking of September,
I am a very small violet
Thinking of May.

—Hilda Conkling
Favorite Poems Old and New
edited by Helen Ferris


08.30.2023: I love this poem. Be who you are, no matter who someone else says you should be.