Best Lantana Poems

"As other spirits sail on music, mine, oh my love, swim on your perfume." Charles Baudelaire

"Sometimes you find an old bottle from which the soul returns." 
Charles Baudelaire

"Smell is a Word. Perfume is Literature."

"There are no women who do not like perfume, there are women...

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Black and white butterfly a rare single sighting
Idealized image caught upon film
Beautiful bounding insect drinking nectar 
Against such colorful contrast of orange Lantana
A wonderful shot snapped in a twinkle of the eye
Photo snapped by a trained eye and skilled cameraman
A picturesque scene to last a...

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"Lantana"



Beans grown 
in a belly
planted they bloom
through crimson
they arrive 
trying to weed
the prickly parent purple 
Lantana out

The future is 
bright and shiny 
just like a new penny
that was held in the hands
of pappy and mammy

But they know better
like no dog was ever a pup
or walked...

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Lantana blossoms beautify hedge-fortress
Radiant colors relieve distress
Pink and red pink of varied hues
With yellow sun’s cues
Brightly show
God’s bliss!
Flowers blow
Oozing sweet fragrance
Celestial scent’s endurance
Refreshing Summer midst glowing heat
Along hope’s steadfast* light, pests attempt to beat.

*1Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding...

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