Sea Poppies

"Sea Poppies" is another imagery poem by H.D. The poem is describing scenes in nature. In most of her imagery poems the images come from nature. In this poem she uses images of sand as the landscape and shells. After reading this poem one can imagine a beach with golden sand and sea-shells along the shore. One can picture themselves in this place H.D. is describing.

Amber husk
fluted with gold,
fruit on the sand
marked with a rich grain,

treasure
spilled near the shrub-pines
to bleach on the boulders:

your stalk has caught root
among wet pebbles
and drift flung by the sea
and grated shells
and split conch-shells.

Beautiful, wide-spread,
fire upon leaf,
what meadow yields
so fragrant a leaf
as your bright leaf?