The Lily Poem by segun Johnson Ozique

Lilium, the genus of the lily herbaceous
Born of ovary that is superior borne to adversaries
As bulb, weakling but bloomed, is pre eminence;
Beautiful in her native temperate as in the tropics
Gorgeously habiting in airy woodland as in grassland
Retains these naturally in swampy soil, or ruffling in dirt
Though survives in these complexity and pattern,
Domineeringly: yet tender in required environment.

The lilium is truly the Madonna of all flowers
As like in human type; loving, caring, kind and sweet
Open to pickles and prickles, to be burdened to borders
Able to cast her beauty and savour in frowns of shadows
Needing propagation to keep the star diamond restored:
But this applied, the cloud is lifted and her bloom is retuned