Day 27 ..2

 The kadapul flower of happiness


Is the dearest flower in the world

Flowering only yearly  and then only, unobserved

At midnight in a great desert


But how worthwhile,

How wonderful, this effort

To see the moon (if there to be seen )

Then wither, silver, fade


And cannot be bought

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