I found this poem the other day and maybe some of you would enjoy it. Some may have seen it in the Spring 2006 Daylily Journal... Daylily Seuss is the name of the poem and it was written by Richard Akers, Oregon.

One hem

two hems

Red hems

Blue hems

Tall hems

Short hems

Old hems

New hems

Some are dips and some are tets

Some we even treat as pets

Where do they come from? I don't know

But that one just won Best Of Show.

This one's shaped just like a spider

This one, too--that one beside her

Some have ruffles, some have eyes

Some have teeth, what a surprise.

Some are better, some are worse

Some depend upon your purse.

Some we like are very cheap

The price of some will make you weap.

Salter, Petit, Kinnebrew, Carr

Grace or Kirchhoff, who's the star?

Stamile, Moldovan or Morss

I'd say I like them all, of course.

Some stand straight, and some have fallen

Some from dabbing to much pollen

Sometimes when I'm busy seeding,

Think I'm doing to much breeding.

Some grow near and some grow far

Some are grown inside a jar

It's in a box! I'll take a stab

It musta come out of a lab.

Purple hems

Yellow hems

Fifty hems

Hundred hems

I'm needing more, I can't decide

It must be time, now, to devide

I am obsessed, I'm wanting more

Proliferations by the score.

Orange hems

Pinkish hems

Thousand hems

Million hems

Oh, look!, what are those funny spots

Look there's more---oh my, there's lots

I think I'll spray, I think I'll drench

I think I'll toss them in a trench.

Will talk about them ever tire us??

If so, I guess there's always Iris...

Tickled me to read this..Ellie