Two lips for Tulips
My friend Barbara gave me some gorgeous tulips, my favorite flower. Flowers are the highest physical expression of spirituality, whose only purpose is to provide unparalleled beauty and the elevation of human consciousness. Tulips look like candy, lollipops in particular, but no one eats them. Flowers generally are not edible—mostly exempt from the nasty food chain. No one preys on flowers, except for some delinquent squirrels and critters who don’t know any better. Bees service them, sun and rain nurture them, humans worship them. They are the natural jewels of Mother Earth.
Tulips have a shy scent, nothing too showy. They smell like a sunny day. You have to stick your face right inside them to detect the scent, which I am only too happy to do. Making sweet love to tulips is about as sublime as it gets. Look at the color of this bunch—it’s sensationally rich—red or pink? Red, no pink, no red. Red-pink, depending on the light. Shiny too. I put them out in the sun and they burst open, sun-soakers that they are. Some of the petals were so eager they flipped back like an umbrella on a windy day. I took them inside and popped the petals back to their original, huggy state.So sweet.
Kiss tulips this spring. They are to lips made for kissing…
