From Galway Kinnell's "Saint Francis and the Sow"

The bud
stands for all things
even for those things that don't flower
for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;
though sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness
to put a hand on its brow
of the flower
and retell it in words and in touch
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within
of self-blessing.