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Therapies from Myrtle

  • Writer: Luke12Poetry
    Luke12Poetry
  • Dec 4, 2020
  • 1 min read

Three cheers for the common Myrtle plant! Asteroid flowers that shine and grant whiteness - without night skies - Its oil is velvet fog - perfume set to boil

See it rest on continents - breathing The physicians are busy tackling fever - pain - in Egyptian journals There is much to admire - kernels of evidence - Myrtle benefits

On thrones, salicylic acid sits

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