Best Posies Poems

Wild are the spring flowers which win my heart 
wood violets blue, and those Johnnie jump-Up starts
waves of ajunta burgundy glow 
pierced with lost daffodils standing apart
a gourmands delight admired a la carte
'mong seas of forsythia fences are draped.

Bushes of fuzzywillows looking smart, 
cozy up...

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I've gone,
to where,
my sorrowful soul,
was waiting for me.

Deep darkness enticed me to play, 
I never could as a child, 
because growing up,
came quickly for me.

The memories of stinging bees,
beneath my bare feet, 
and winds that blew away,
my dandelion wishes.

The clouds always drew,
dark pictures,
as I sat...

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The primrose posies

unique to our countryside

scatter their beauty...

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grandma's garden blooms 
grand daughter cuts precious rose 
ends up in a vase...

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pretty Polly practiced planting posies
purple primrose, pink petunias, plants protected by
prideful, placid, preening peacocks.
produce provided by Polly’s plentiful garden
pleases Peterson, plant president of Puffin Produce....

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We can mortify our flesh,
wear our sign of confession,
perform our penance,
bear portions of scratchy sackcloth
so rough, so abrasive, against our bare backs.

Our sideboard now bears such a treasure,
three posies, nosegays, tussie-mussies,
bound in such pieces that would
love to scratch at our naked flesh
if we pressed it...

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