Flowers and Trees

Marigolds with your ruffled edges and your prissy girly ways,
You uplift me on my most almost horrific downward days.
Lilacs fragrances wafting about in every one of my Mays,
You make me proud with your natural floral turn of phrase.

My most exotic friend, the mighty magical solid red oak.
Her shiny pointed leaves almost always telling me a good joke.
The best one of all is how she grew from an acorn, one that broke.
When her tiny tree stem began to grow in a mushroom’s cloak.

Knock out roses, scarlet cone flowers, hollyhocks and violets too.
Adding rainbow colors to the lawn, the pond, and the sky that’s blue.
Weeping willows, cottonwoods, elms, and hickories long overdue,
My green thumb is excited I had so much to do with planting you.

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Date: 6/3/2021 9:17:00 PM
Thanks for sharing your magical garden with us, Caren. It certainly belongs here among the top 100 poems! Lovely write.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 6/4/2021 12:53:00 PM
Thank you Hank I appreciate it
Date: 5/30/2021 12:24:00 PM
Another fascinating read, i can smell those blooms.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/30/2021 3:47:00 PM
Thank you John. I planted flowers today all morning.
Date: 5/8/2021 2:08:00 AM
If you're growing tomatoes, the marigolds will attract the greenfly away from them so any poem about marigolds is cool in my book. :) Cheers - Gary
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/8/2021 10:20:00 AM
I love marigolds, and I love tomatoes. Thank you for the heads up Gary; I did not know this.
Date: 5/7/2021 5:33:00 AM
Love this so much! Love how you begin with “Marigolds with your ruffled edges and your prissy girly ways” A fave. Hearts and hugs ~ Kim
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/7/2021 7:54:00 AM
Thank you Kim. I love marigolds the best, so I feel they will not mind if I make fun of them a bit.
Date: 5/6/2021 11:26:00 AM
So cute and sweet. I love to garden!!! Happy it's spring. Love to you and blessings too. Love, Gina
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/6/2021 6:48:00 PM
I am a garden lover - thanks Gina
Date: 5/6/2021 6:52:00 AM
This is beautiful. I enjoyed this fun poem Caren :)
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/6/2021 6:49:00 PM
Thank you Heidi
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