As part of our Amsterdam trip, one of the stops that I had to make was to see the flowers. The Netherlands as a whole is known for its flowers, so it was a must! When planning, we did not know if we were going to go out to the fields or what we were going to do! With some further research, we found a floating flower market! It was free to go see unless, of course, if you bought something, which I did.
In the poem "Blackberry-Picking" by Seamus Heaney, he wrote, “At first, just one, a glossy purple clot/Among others, red, green, hard as a knot." In this poem, he is talking about going out and picking blackberries, and how some are at different stages in their growth than others. The poem also talks about the life cycle of the berries, from how they look when they are ready to be picked to when they are rotting. The same could go for the flowers in Amsterdam. At the market, they were all different, both in their sense of color and the amount that they had grown. No matter what, they were beautiful! When it comes to the life cycle of the flowers, we saw them at their peak.
I think that it is important for us to look at everything, no matter what stage it is in, as beautiful. That is what is happening in this poem, and I feel like this is something that everyone should be able or at least try to do! If we did this, I think that we would all have a different perspective of things that may be at the end of its life.
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