The tickseed, bright perennial, comes each year,
its yellow lanceolate blossoms small,
some spring to early summer will appear,
while others wait for mid-summer to fall.
Both wild and garden varieties can be found,
good for floral arrangements or outside;
despite abundant flowers eight petals around,
its deep green bushy foliage cannot hide.
It likes the hot dry season and full sun,
and so needs lots of H2O to grow;
its hardy and free-flowering florets run
acclimatized to an East Coast tableau.
If sunflowers spread their large gold blooms by day,
the small sunflower-like tickseed colors flame
against their olive boughs in ricochet
and put nocturnal twinkling stars to shame.
Does God gaze at our dark and fallen world
to relish sparkling tickseed souls aglow
with all their virtuous beauty full unfurled,
a coreopsis verticillata show?
-- by Pete Voelz 2003
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