Best Bloomer Poems

healthy and happy
though a late bloomer walking
each crutch a memoir...

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Lazy

Daisy


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There once was a fine buxom lass
who wrote poetry with real class
and though she was sly
real foxxy and why
that fair buxom lass was a gas!

Yes...

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“You have to get a job, my son,
Your mother and I agree.
You can’t spend your life just loafing around,
Sponging on her and me.”

And, although...

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She stands
alone in her defiance
a late bloomer
cold rain shimmering
on her longing
to be
fulfilled.


©10/27/2019

Writing Challenge, October, 2019 – Flower or Flowers
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LATE BLOOMER
sun highlights
the bod of oak bark -
Autumn knight

CLINGERS
won’t let go -
cling to puppy love,
its branches

CLEAVERS
cleaves to old
relationship vow -
storm shakes loose

LANDING
the leaves land
amidst the...

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So much to wish for and so little time.
I really must get my life back in line.

So much I had hoped for that did no0t...

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The fear of Public Speaking  has been with me always
but never like it was on that June evening so many years ago.
I still get...

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She did the washing e’vry Monday morn,
All fabrics sorted in different piles,
The wrung-out whites shone brighter than the dawn,
While flapping in the wind and sunshine...

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for my ever so intelligent, beautiful granddaughter, Juliette

Waking in the garden, 
she was the lone bloomer out today-
Peeking from behind her petals, 
she saw a...

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I found poison sweeter 
Than to be called Drinker's Mother 
It was second time You came home 
Caprenetoid and open buttons
When you came home like...

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Going out on a blind date,
go see a movie, then grab a table for two
Got no expectations whatsoever, honestly
I just hope she lets her hair...

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common ruellia
fall bloomer deep green foliage...
blue coated yellow...  

A plant called Mexican Petunia
invasive but beautiful cornflower
blue trumpet shape blooms covered with 
yellow butterflies.....

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Yo! Momma! Remember me?
I'm your sweet little loving son!
I know I'm not cute like the other kids
But my heart's as big as the sun

Yo! Momma!...

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Now before we get started let me tell you this.
Twenty five years I've been out of school.
Not one single day of it do I miss.
My...

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