Best Day Lily Poems

Hurry, hurry we are burning daylight,
      The flowers are wilting;
Mother was planting a cottage garden,
And we needed the right perennials;
Flowers durable, enduring, perpetual,
      Oh sweet dreams of flowers;
This was a journey I shared with mother,
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The magnificent perianths
Of the Day Lilies with their six
Spreading bright orange arms (funnel-formed)
Fixed in their clustered colonies
Absent of any luring scent
Still attracts the bees
And the poets aesthetic eyes.
Oblique, penetrating sunrays
Shine through the high canopied trees
Directly onto their blossoms
Seemingly glowing like embers
In a campers dying campfire;
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Yellow day lily's bloom
Tightly pinched the blossom
Against the morning's cold
Last bud of summer 
Soon 'oar's frost will close  

Gogyohka form...

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from day lily blooms
to tiger lily blossoms....
flits a hummingbird     ...

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