Best Horticultural Poems

Spring Flowers

Opal open clouds let raindrops freely fall
Coaxing coy blossoms of spring to bloom.
Fragrant sweet scents permeate the air.
Snow drops begin the parade as they...

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The blackberry's love for the garden rose
Brought down the gardener's wrath.
The blackberry sensed the danger
As he wended the garden path.

" A love so true as...

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Creeping creepy creepers, the crawling trellis
jutting out of everywhere
snaking through country and metropolis
twisting turning in floral bliss
but more like snakes that hiss
But in quietude feign...

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November dreams of beauty of my garden in springtime,
planning horticultural fancies my garden has never grown.
Dreaming of it in November is easy part of gardening....

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I’ve been privileged ‘cause I’ve seen
The paintings of Monet.
One museum near my house
Has many on display.

The gardens of Monet provided
So much inspiration,
His palette came from...

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Heaven is located behind my front door 
orchids of every colour adorn
my lounge; which is my horticultural haven
everywhere you look is blessed with their beauty

So...

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A synchronised swan chime is very pleasant in a cool breeze but sampling an electric blanket supper is just not that amazing. Nor is it...

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I have just been confounded by nature on so many counts. I have been commenting on bumblebees not being seen in any quantity over most...

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A myth and a fable can be found on a table. When an old man does look in an ancient book. Dragons and periodic charts...

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Every time I change directions
lately, and possibly beforely,
Trees stand by to mentor
and nurture,
to feed with branched hands
to bleed when uprooted
from aptic past centuries
of hibernating winter...

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Beautiful blue buddleia
brimming with bejeweled butterflies
which flutter frequently from branch to branch

Fabulous freesias
sensationally scented
perfumed perfection

Ruby red rambling roses
dainty daffodils and jaunty jonquils
colourful crocus and charming...

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Below the stars and silver moon,
Abounds the coruscation of silhouetted curves.
Sinusoidal and voluptuous,
Seismic undulating and venereal.

Your mind synaptically aglow under the light,
Evokes ethereal perspicacity within...

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If I a bare fisted foot that a layered leaf once left undisturbed but amongst the rising becomes a glow and fortress is a finger...

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Origami gifts fledglings multiple 
         Stork sling incubates infant hatchery
       ...

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With Thanks they spoke of the endearing
and restorating power
of togetherness.
Even in doubt when people wish those chores and tasks done
they will unite
to see things done.
One...

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