Best Crepe Myrtle Poems

Eventide’s misty winds gently oscillate
Colorful clusters of crepe-myrtle flowers
Crowning atop rows of elegant tree-trunks
Blooms lavender, pink, red, and purple
Hanging in air from tips of twigs slender 
Bowing to earth, donning green foliage
Arrayed in symmetrical flower-bouquets.

On a summer stroll, my hand you hold,
Gazing rhythms tilting back...

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As the garden grows…


This one is For Sythia  
       Rose may not agree  
She’s the one who seems to think
                 ...

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Lost like unused syllables in unrhyming words
petals of frilled sorrow drip to the earth from weeping trees, 
crying each filigreed petal slowly, one by one, 
in cascades of gentle tears to their tender rest,
shaping billowing beds of brightly colored pillows,
until soft breaths of evening breeze...

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crepe myrtle's bare limbs
peeled bark reveals red-brown tone...
sparse seed pods remain  ...

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Crepe Myrtle flower
Delicate inviting bees
Come early breakfast...

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hot pink wig blowing 
in the wind around thick limbs
razor smooth barkless


For Linda Marie's contest...

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A

Row

Of green

With blossoms

Crepe Myrtle in bloom

Magenta against spring green leaves

Evidence of summer displayed in full glorious colors  ...

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The Crepe Myrtle bursts
raspberry exuberance
in early August's burning.
Now's when I miss you.
Soon alder leaves like hearts bleed
red, pass my window churning.


8/14/17...

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I’m a Crepe Myrtle
By: Tom Wright
10-15-2019

I’m the crepe myrtle
 attempting to grow where I shouldn’t be.
I birthed from a wind deposited seed
that landed in a sidewalk crack,
and lean against your porch’s rock column.
I grow two feet each year and bloom hot pink.
I know you love...

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Prunella loved the color purple,
planting some lovely Crepe Myrtle’s;
they had a humongous growth spurt,
all due to her nitro-rich dirt,
now her yard’s a Myrtle hurdle.


6-11-2022
Contest / A Funny Limerick - Any Theme Contest
Tania kitchen...

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