Haiku #12 South Facing Light

My husband loves anything tropical.  I think it reminds him of that dream tropical vacation we plan on taking one day.  Well he loves orchids and we've gone through several amazing exotic plants that bloomed and then died. It might have had something to do with us living in a condo with very little light, we had to depend more on artificial light.

It wasn't until the day my husband moved our latest orchid from its decorative place on the piano to the kitchen counter below the south facing window that the thing exploded in blooms.  Up until that point, we had never had an orchid that re-bloomed but this one began bursting with new buds!

Then one day someone was doing dishes and the orchid got knocked into the sink and lost almost all it's blooms.  I almost cried.  It was doing so well and now it was over.  One bloom was left intact, so we placed the plant back in the sun and walked away.

Within a week or two, the buds began to creep out and up again.  It has been blooming non-stop ever since then.  The south-facing kitchen window was the secret to nourishing this sweet purple speckled flower.  I guess all it needed was the right light.

This got me thinking. There are many types of light out there not all of them are the best.  Some have the ability to get you to bloom but they are not enough to keep you strong.  They just don't last. Or other types of light are artificial and can't do much nourishing at all.  But, some light is true and strong and it lifts you much higher than you were before, encouraging you to bloom and keep blooming.


Moth Orchid
by Kate Cowan

Purple rounded bloom,
yawning in the southern sun,
you're happiest here.