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The Feast of Flowers

from Quarantine Songs Volume I by Riverman

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The Feast of Flowers in the evening hours
The world is ours at the Feast of Flowers

Open the curtain of the past again
The breeze is so inviting
A fragrant spell
Is springing
From an ancient well

An almost island in-between the seas
Where hearts of palm are beating
Cicadas making music
Clouds gathering above
This land that we love

The sound of sails on a foamy shore
When tall ships were invading
Wood and steel
And secrets
The Western World concealed

Shouts of welcome in a local tongue
Gifts of tabby and coquina
The feast for them was ending
When it had just begun
In this land that they loved

Their stories buried under sandy soil
Secrets still worth keeping
They’re safer from harm
Clay pots and sacred charms
And flowers

The Feast of Flowers blooms on Spanish towers
Reveal yours powers, it’s feast on the flowers

Built by citrus picked by darkest hands
Lonely farmlands still remind me
Before them stood plantations
Our sordid history

Overbrimming with the fruits of toil
It was a feast for masters only
Unknown slaves who labored
Bless them everyone
In this land under the sun

In the garden when the moon is high
The gator’s eyes are gleaming
An inverse world reflected
Changing with the tide

The Swanee river running ever wild
The St. John’s fleeing northward
Baptizing with beauty
Cleansing holy ground
In this feast where all is found

A land of plenty and a land of poor
No halcyon days of yore
The past is unforgiving
The present’s giving more
Than flowers

Pull back the curtain of the past again
Examine it unflinching
Like citrus trees we’re grafted
To what came before

Stories built on stories
Forevermore
This land where we were born
A feast of joy and pain
And the fossilized remains
Of flowers

The Feast of Flowers in the evening hours
The world is ours at the Feast of Flowers

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from Quarantine Songs Volume I, released June 24, 2022

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Riverman Orlando, Florida

Steve Hedrick is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He lives in Orlando, Fl with his wife and two children. He is currently working on new material and will post it when it's finished.

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