Best Azaleas Poems

stronger sun of spring; 
azaleas and butterflies 
wild color riot  


Haiku syllable count 5/7/5...

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No work or worry is required of me.
				
				 You grace my yard year after year--
				               ravishing red,
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Swamp Azaleas

Cloying sticky sweet white trumpets;
Summer heat transports the robust attar
Of azaleas from damp, resinous fens.

Their high notes flirting with the low
Construct complex, exultant perfumes 
Nimbly blended in the season’s tepidity.
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When
			azaleas spread
			their deep pink cups
			I hold my breath
			and hope for form 
			to hold an hour
			before
			they begin their 
			twisting dance
			to dust.
			O beauties,
			did my touch
			bruise the space
			about your faltering
			grace?...

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