Best Mimosa Poems

Blush
fair skies 
mist Sol-kissed
citrine seduced 
mimosa clouds bask
dreamy in champagne light 

golden-god’s sparkle fills
chalices roused and
rouged as poppies
hail dawn with
unfurled 
whorls


Susan Ashley
August 16, 2021


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Sponsor: Malabika Ray Choudhury


*rouged: verb; French; colored red*

*image: Nature Wallpapers > Fields > Poppy field at...

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~To hold as 't were, the mirror up to nature…

How sweet the Mimosa’s aromatic lure  
   with lumbering roots stretching and digging deep.
      Leaning this way, that way as bodies mature
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the fragrance
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Exotic beauty enthralls
Smooth grey bark on slender trunk
Crowned by a lush canopy
Verdant fern-like leaves

Adorned by pink puffs of fluff
Their fragrance lures butterflies
Bees and hummingbirds hover
Truly delightful


2/12/12 Kim Merryman
For Russell Sivey's  Trees Everywhere contest...

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Mimosa shut leaves
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Grieve, mimosa tree

Silky pink petals, a wreath

Create canopy

Guard love one, at peace, beneath

Your presence shall ever haunt...

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Here I am
Your mimosa pubica
When your footsteps were far away
I lifted my head 
Opened my heart again
And in cognito among the grass
Rise from under the oppression of your shoe
My weapons are peace
My leaves unfold their embrace of your cruelty
And opened me like a heart to...

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A chilled but passionate solution
Bubbly mix with bracing sensation
Dashes of bittersweet fruit in flute
Sends forth your day in joyous pursuit

An inward touch of coy affection
Close to perfect prime of your generation
Afar I lay on your sinuous path
As frivolous lace of vast green swath...

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Come's, our two thousand and ninety-fourth year;
 the earth is green, and the atmosphere clear.
 The mimosa and kudzu continue to grow,
 and which shall prevail – does anyone know?

 The kudzu is stronger and more eager to win,
 but the winter remains mimosa’s old...

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Mimosa trees in bloom,
Scent the air with sweet perfume,
I breathe it in.
On this sunny day in May,
Troubles seem so far away;
I pick up my pen.

5/16/2021
For Line Gauthier's Surprise Me contest...

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The magic of mimosa meandered,
In her mystical mind and on the mirror.
Mesmerizing moments of men!

With mannish kindness they kissed her hands 
and dainty, debutante fingers
Masculine too, having merciful manners

Musicality and poetry, a mighty mix.
The moon shed musical tunes midst the mimosa.
Moving down sweet memoir’s corridors.
To...

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Watching 
People speaking to each other
So effortlessly confident
Words flow
At their first meet

Curling my knuckles
Under my face
Feeling with envy
Sometimes with anger

Secretly hating 
Not them
The people from my past
Who made my heart and mind 
This way

Just not enough
For myself to move on
How far I go
Pulling me back...

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How its divine fragrance lifts my soul.
Soft mimosa, blooming, next to my deck. 
Announcing, Lady Spring has come.
My thoughts.......only of beauty.
And all the blessings God has given me.

The most real trophy in my life, 
God gave me was my soul.
That dances above fear and strife!
Would...

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(In language of flowers, mimosa is conjuration of secret love: no one knows that I love you) 


A doe-eyed blue gaze, twirl of curly tress
feisty air froth , fizz of golden champagne
crystal glasses clink, her daisy print dress 
shimmering silver, all scrambled in brain.
Cold ice...

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Under the mimosa tree
My poet’s heart alights,
Dapples verse
In fragrant phrase
And blooms
In pink delight....

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