Best Foxgloves Poems

"Foxgloves"



Through the glass darkly
an opening appears
dance cards 
pulled from pockets

foxgloves wears
some violet light
a banished sleeping
coalescent queen

a ghost not lost 
from the other side
walks through the glass darkly 
sees truth buried in the unseen

glimmers of glamour 
timed in the slow 
unknown waltz
growing red passion

romance 
among the...

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Digitalis purpurea (Scrophulariaceae)
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Conspicuous height with a nitrogen foil

A tubular flourish and biennial splice-

The loveliest fiesta in a sandy loam soil

Discovers importance as seedlings suffice

Flowering  spikes sharing things that we love

Pave avenues deep with a dark purple...

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Foxgloves and dogwood, oh my! 

Playing in the garden, 

When no one else is looking

Having such a great time, 

Foxgloves they are so sly 

Dogwood so excitable, 

Dancing together 

And so colourful, 

Filling the garden 

With mischief and magically 

Bring to life all of natures...

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tiger skins within
proudly open their mouths wide ...
perplexed honeybees


14 March 2022...

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Mother was away, plucking hens
So I got my mead, in the special hip flask
Sat by the fence, just by the green
Time slipped along, Ken joined me there

And the day was bottle blue
And the trees were nettle green
Over by the wood, the foxgloves grew
All spread about,...

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These garden escapes, hardy stalwarts,
have legged it from the border -
they have said goodbye to the shade-loving ferns
and broken free from the boundary wall
to seed in chippings, chesil slack,
a no-man's land by the standing trucks
blushing like children at the station box
who trespass for kicks in...

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