Florilegium: Latin roots, Flor (flowers) legere (gather) a collection of flowers, often an analogy for choice literary extracts.
Florilegium, literally meaning “a collection of flowers”, was eventually repurposed during the medevial age to be a “collection of excerpts”. This “Florilegium of Eden” serves both meanings, my best poems paired flowers whom qualities and place in cultural symbolism parallels the poem.
A “Florilegium of Eden”, bearing fruits of knowledge. The fruit of life, reader, is your interaction with knowledge.
Always eat the core.
Woodstock embodies the incomprehensible spark of creation — the inner light of God, the source from which all art flows. Tiny and seemingly fragile, yet infinite in reach, Woodstock is the origin of inspiration itself: the silent, luminous presence that stirs the mind, awakens imagination, and breathes life into every act of creation.
“Woodstock knows that he is very small and inconsequential indeed. It’s a problem we all have. The universe boggles us. In the larger scheme, we suddenly realize, we amount to very little. It’s frightening. Only a certain maturity will make us able to cope. The minute we abandon the quest for it we leave ourselves open to tragic results. Woodstock is a lighthearted expression of that idea.”
“Woodstock is not a great flyer. In fact, he doesn’t even know what type of bird he is. The only thing he knows for sure is that he and Snoopy were destined to be great pals. He refers to Snoopy as his friend of friends, the only one in the neighborhood who understands his chirps. Woodstock is always up for an adventure, but is just as happy relaxing at home.”
