Take My Pic Poem by Douglas Scotney

Out on the 16th of Sept,
for days look-out I've kept,
for the first shirley poppy flower.

Its four red-pink petals
are white-tipped
and at their bases
is formed a white-tipped black cross
that is largely hidden
by bushy black, yellow-pollen-bearing anthers
surrounding a projecting,
pale yellow, clockface-like pistil
below which will swell the poppy's capsule.

I got to it before the bees,
to perfect it
miming 'cheese'.