Best Perennials Poems

There is a certain comfort that comes to me
every spring, from perennials I planted years ago, that still pop up, beneath dark soil. 

  I often wonder how in the world they survived the harshness of winter and his unforgiving and relentless frozen lashings,...

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Lost efforts
Will sometime abound
Not something needing
To hang around
Time in the moments
Can not be regained
But the rain check 
Rings back from the mind
Giving better means to wind
Of ways to astound 
The understanding
Peeks an attitude
Knowing the word lost
paints wins turn...

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Winter perennials lavished with hope
under layers of crisp snow
waiting their turn 

Spring perennials hope to be noticed
duller than annuals
but more dependable and loyal

Summer perennials outlasting the annuals
proudly soaking up morning dew
last men standing

Fall perennials going away gently
giving their seeds gladly
easy like trees...

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