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Alyssum Poems - Poems about Alyssum

Premium Member The Seasons of Life
...The winter snow and freeze killed everything I planted in the spring, Rhododendrons, roses, Hawaii hibiscus And the bougainvillea orange king. Parsley, sage and thyme are gone, Peony and pan......

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Categories: alyssum, metaphor, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Flowerful Fun
...Rosey, had a rose of course And Dan had Dandelions. Sonny sought out Sunflowers And Pete perfumed Petunias. Maisey dreams of Daisys, Cyrus clings to Iris. Pops loves Poppys everywhere and Viol......

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Categories: alyssum, adventure, fantasy, flower, fun,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member Spring Sonata
...The Solar Spring is breathtaking sending out itself everywhere a sense of renewal is arising, growing, budding, and blooming. The groundbreaking is taxing the granules of rich earthen......

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Categories: alyssum, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fragrant Families
...I was a skillful, amiable nursery worker, cultivating blooms in a greenhouse, Like feverish and fragrant blooms, often grown in redbird's green treehouse. Hours were spent sowing seeds, adjusting......

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Categories: alyssum, beauty, dream, fantasy, flower,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Waxy Winter
...stand so lethargic alyssum and ash aster --- as though half dead could not live they raise up their heads as though in resurrection --- embellishing Jesus white 10 January 2023......

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Categories: alyssum, winter,
Form: Sedoka



Premium Member Blood Moon
...Raven orchids drape the night, fraying in the high petals of swooning fronds. I sit beneath a daffodil porch light, a blood moon blushing tangerine in a field of white alyssum as I smell the na......

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Categories: alyssum, fantasy, love, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lavender Is Blooming
...The meadow has come alive in vibrant hues Lavender is blooming, accented with yarrow And small ground flowers are showing blues The meadow has come alive in vibrant hues Columbine and......

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Categories: alyssum, bird, flower, nature,
Form: Triolet
Helen's Brick House
...Helen's brick house was built by her grandpa James with a specific design in mind: the front black cross-windows riminded one of Christ's sorrows; when the off-white roll shades opened the neig......

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Categories: alyssum, autumn, beauty, blessing, garden,
Form: Rhyme
Maze
...PATHS were bordered by boxwood hedges softened with fern, surrounding GARDEN edges. Light floral scents perfumed the morning air and sweet alyssum lined walkways; pea graveled. I strolled......

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Categories: alyssum, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Desert Bloom
...My aorta beats in golden poppies, pulsing down slopes to pool in a bruise of purple sage. Though my eyes gleam with lemon marigolds snow caps of porcelain lupine melt on my lashes, undulating ......

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Categories: alyssum, flower, metaphor, spring,
Form: Personification
Oh, God Expand My Narrow, Cluttered Room Rewritten
...Oh God, expand my narrow, cluttered, room! And clear the clutter out, so I may see! And still my Seas, as You did, Galilee! Life threatens to collapse in, with a Boom! Like Aspen, that arise af......

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Categories: alyssum, angst, christian, god, hope,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member That Summer On the Lake
...Finally, as afternoon sun splayed through the picture window onto wood floor and last pieces of furniture, I packed that summer on the lake into a box, mitering indigo corners between squares of......

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Categories: alyssum, color, imagery, nostalgia, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spring Is In the Air
...A faint perfume of lilac blooms has stirred the sleeping dawn Bright sunlight weaves a golden loom with threads across the lawn Crisp white-lipped Delphiniums tossed snowflakes to the hills, wh......

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Categories: alyssum, flower, nature, spring,
Form: Abecedarian
Long Is Winter When Counting Days and Months
...It's another frigid morning that February brings in howling; I shiver more than the stripped branches when a fierce wind makes me think of avalanches sliding down mountains and ravage villages, ......

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Categories: alyssum, anxiety, goodbye, nature, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Klimt: Portrait of a Lady In Black
...She floats into a room and voices hush, the silence at effulgence in her bloom, as crimson rises to her cheeks in blush to humble scarlet gardens and their plume. The gown in velvet bides her e......

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Categories: alyssum, art, imagery,
Form: Sonnet

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