Best Marguerites Poems

Plant a seed of hope, courage,
     strength, patience and love
     Dig a big hole in the garden...

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I was a learned college professor, who was forever eager to know more,
As blue-gray waves, finding sandy beaches, turn to seek another shore.

I drove to...

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SONG   OF    SONGS 


Let me pluck ripened apples and strawberries for your delight
And put my hand under your head to...

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TWO   KIDS   REMEMBERING


There we were

Next to the railtracks in the middle of the industrial heartland of 1950s Tyneside

Martin and me 

Summer’s...

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Boten des Frühlings / Messengers of Spring / Mensajeros de la primavera   

Boten des Frühlings
Margeriten, Löwenzahn
Dicht bei der Straße 

Und Hummeln im Freudenflug
Über...

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THE   FLOWERS   WELCOME   THE   QUEEN 



Spring returns  to my garden and the  Golden Queen
Once ...

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Bright Marguerites,open and ablaze,
Reflected in a sunny haze.
Lilies waxed in a summer light,
A Jasmined fragrance to fill the night.

Perfumed petals,paper-white
Intoxicate,then delight;
Speaking volumes with words un-heard
Silent,flowers...

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THE COLORS OF EVENING


Playing canasta with family and a shiny new deck of cards,
Kings, queens, the beautiful blackness of the spades.
While outside, through the window,...

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THE GARDENER



Captain  Viktor  Stogov?
Oh he’s gone now
Cancer took him
A cigarette killed him
Where ten years of 
Enemy tanks could not

His flowers blow in the...

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MARGUERITE’S    CHARMS

Rainy day finally gave way to intermittent sun -
Walked out with camera before rain should return,
And fell in love, mesmerized, helpless,...

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DAUGHTER’S  SCHOOL    REPORT



She comes to me
In the morning of her youth
And tells  all about her school day,
Her smile as fresh...

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Bright Marguerites,open and ablaze,
Reflected in a sunny haze.
Lilies waxed in a summer light,
A Jasmined fragrance to fill the night.

Perfumed petals,paper-white
Intoxicate,then delight;
Speaking volumes with words un-heard
Silent,flowers...

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Yet another Monday rolls around
                  And I rise...

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Falling In Love 

It all started in a very simple way 
as she walked down the path and drank in  
the lilies bowing their...

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MESSENGERS 


Serene leisurely flight of dandelion weightless 
Seed puff balls,   thoughts ascending
Across the  void measureless
Between the marguerites and the hedging.


Untroubled, they silently...

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