In the beginning the sunflower was a very tiny seed,
But in the soil it started growing quickly
And so it was with me, too.
When I got to learn bliss symbols
I wanted to talk a lot.
I think it is the same for many children
Who cannot talk with their mouth.
I did not understand those who asked:
Was it hard being a child?
Because when I was little
I didn´t know how it felt talking.
When I look back in time
I feel like a sunflower
Because I like to learn the bliss symbols quickly.
Now the Sunflower has started to flourish
It is the same with my life.
Sunflower was written by Leo Leppälä, from Finland. He shared his poem at our Canadian Faces meeting on March 27 with the help of Gitta Lönnqvist, his speech therapist and Bliss instructor when he was younger,
Leo wrote Sunflower in 1993 when he spent 2 years in Sweden at FURUBODA. At that time, Leo used the Finnish BLISS MASTER software. Leo has written many poems in Bliss since then and has published a book of his poems.
The version that appears below was made with BLISSONLINE (with Swedish glosses).
We thank Leo for expressing his thoughts so well in Bliss!
From Leo’s friend, Gitta Lönnqvist
It was nice to see Sunflower on the web! I only just the other day learnt that sunflower is the national flower of Ukraina. I hope it gives the same strength to the people in Ukraina as it has given to Leo!