Clouds
...Clouds spiral down and curl around to touch me
—not those western drizzle shrouds
baring a soul of misery mizzle
...though I adore a good wallow in sorrow —no
these clouds come from yonder blue...
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Categories:
bee balm, beauty, growth, happy, longing,
Form: Free verse
Endeavors
...Arthur Nelson was a curious, studious fellow, like pearly moon glowing,
Ten years old and spectacled, for all is adventure, when you're growing.
Arthur lived in a one story home, with his...
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Categories:
bee balm, endurance, fantasy, inspiration, nature,
Form: Couplet
Unfold
..."Unfold the days of spring sunshine
and the awe of black and gold velvet wings of happiness." Quote by poet
The amber broad horizon runs over the countryside
While nascent painted...
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Categories:
bee balm, child,
Form: Rhyme
Peppy Petals
...blooms
bouncy
baby’s breath
busy bee balm
ritzy rose, glitzy gloxinia
zany zinnia, dear ditzy daisy
swanky saffron
flouncy phlox
bonnie
buds...
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Categories:
bee balm, beauty, environment, flower, nature,
Form: Tetractys
B's Bank
...Brandon, bald baby brother,
brief bill;
before bother buying beautiful Baby's Breath Bouquet, beware
better bring back borrowed Bee Balm Bag,
-busted-
because building behavior beats blaming bad...
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Categories:
bee balm, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Alliteration
Kiss of a Tulip
...kiss of a tulip
lavender and bee balm too
garden winked her song...
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Categories:
bee balm, flower,
Form: Haiku
My Yard Is Alive In June
...Butterfly leads my eye to other marvels
Marigold laughs, seeing my interest
I walk to the bee balm and visit with the bumblers
They are in a frenzy, competing for pollen
My yard is fully alive ...
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Categories:
bee balm, garden,
Form: Free verse
Garden Hummer Conundrum
...Poor Ruby Hummer looks confused,
searching for her favorite feeder.
It was right there when it last was used,
in September, in the cedar.
Above the Bee-balm and Lobelia,
in my pollinator garde...
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Categories:
bee balm, bird, flower, garden, spring,
Form: Rhyme
The Virtue of Motion and Life
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Rebirth glides -
a bee balm ballerina
with dainty airs
sails soft upon enchanted wisps
of Spirit’s blown kiss..
wandering a nectar network
weaving amid shaggy blooms gilt-tilled..
a ...
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Categories:
bee balm, appreciation, beauty, butterfly, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Watching the Flowers Grow- Or
...
My mom was quite an all flower expert.
oh yes, she knew all those long Latin names;
I sighed- so to English she did revert.
Grow we whispered- to all those flower dames!
High, hig...
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Categories:
bee balm, flower, garden,
Form: Ottava rima
Bee Balm
...How can something be so good?
Yet forgotten!
Fragrances that call,
Attention to her beauty
Growing in the wild.
As we pass her by,
Without a care,
Or a second glance,
Not knowing the benefits...
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Categories:
bee balm, poems,
Form: Personification
What Will Tomorrow Bring
...Tomorrow brings the blue bird's song
Hand painted clouds at sunrise
Hummingbirds humming over red bee balm
Bumblebees buzzing with butterflies
Hand painted clouds at sunrise
That very first sm...
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Categories:
bee balm, appreciation, morning, nature,
Form: Pantoum
She That Rivaled the Glowing Moon
...She That Rivaled The Glowing Moon
Thy *hyacinth* hair upon white shoulders laid bare
thy face, mirror of love in heavenly skies.
The miracle of thy body, so sweet and fair
its soft innocence, d...
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Categories:
bee balm, angel, art, beautiful, girlfriend,
Form: Sonnet
The Summer Garden Party
...The rooster led his harem forth
into the garden for a party
There they would dine from mother earth
Aphids on roses, worms they ate harty
Queen Ann's lace was laced with caterpillars
And r...
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Categories:
bee balm, fun, nature,
Form: Sonnet
The Virgin, the Villian and the Black Dog
...When first freed from mother's skirt, still arrayed in white,
dew kissed, peach sweet, blush cored, I dove into
love, Persephone pierced; where ox-eyed daisies grew
within a field abreast a Roman .....
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Categories:
bee balm, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
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