Best Milkweed Poems

in awe we polka
our milkweed pod sonata
dazzling the pond...

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Roots and Dandelion Dreams: A Mother's Heart
- Daniel Henry Rodgers

At dawn's first blush, 
milkweed pods, 
burst with a sigh,
A feathery shower of, 
silk sending secrets......

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I had waited for you seemingly forever
So long did it take before you were to come into my life
But in so many ways you had...

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This beautiful journey begins
From a courtship routine
The male perch themselves on leaves
And create a glorious scene
Waiting for a female 
Just to fly on by
Now he...

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Eggs
 Laid on
 Milkweed leaves,
 Caterpillars
 Soon emerge and weave
 Through the plant as they feast
 Then cocoon, a week at least
 On a warm...

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Beauty

Beauty is all around me, in a million different things.
The silvery haired, wrinkled face of one that has impenetrable memories
She smiles and longs for someone,...

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I am an Outlander
Who lives on a high hill
Overlooking a man-made lake
That once was a rapidly rushing river
Along whose banks the Ozarks Bluff Dwellers and...

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She comes to me when e’er she will,
When starlight sprinkles my windowsill.
When the dew finds rest upon the grass
She taps upon my window glass.

I go...

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fragile
the tiny egg
laid on a milkweed leaf
devoured by a hungry lizard
 deprived of becoming
a butterfly
Life ends

fragile
the butterfly
sipping from a pink rose
becomes the feast for a...

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revelation of revelations!
an ordinary morning til..
discovery of discoveries 
brittle chrysalis
upside down, branching
breathing, pulsing
I pause and
inspect the
pupa’s fortress
tight and hard as 
childhood memories of
milkweed pods 
splaying,...

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You came into her house through the kitchen. 
The big door in from the front porch
Hadn't been used for years;
Furniture stood hard against it.
A knock...

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Butterfly wings a-flutter upon the current of life
Carried to fields of milkweed feasts
Colors blending amongst the flowers
Beauty dies to metamorphous

(Truth endures the time)

Cocoon-wrapped fragility
Births forth...

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The meadow has come alive with sight and sound
As I go through the gate, I hear buzzing all around,
The bees are busy working on milkweed...

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Majestic wings flutter in the air
over sweet blossoms that waft perfume.
Nodding heads affirm there’s nectar there
as a proboscis probes each new bloom. 
Rays of golden...

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