Best Potted Poems

I potted up a plant, with love, for you;
Although I fear it could turn out a weed:
I’ll have to stick a flower on with glue...

It...

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Written: December 10, 2023
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 Soft cashmere amethyst blossoms...

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I made a promise, a little visit
A busy day...so much to do..
But, I'm running late, they will be waiting...
I should be going...the clock is ticking
I'll...

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I’ve picked it up a hundred times
yet dropped it just once more
So I give up, the blasted thing
can lay there on the floor

And stepping out...

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“It’s not what they say when you are there, it’s what they whisper after you leave.”         ...

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Candy floss, seaside rock, smoothies, and flags sporting
Union Jacks
Replace the old traditions of striped deckchairs 
And Kiss-Me-Quick hats.
Chipwicks for our salt and vinegar fries
And their...

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A wildflower grows on the cobblestoned streets of this dingy town,
Among the dirt and debris left behind by the seasons.
A misplaced beauty working her way...

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The Value of Romanticism

"Suspicious of Reason, romanticists prefer leaps of faith
-- in addition to leaps off cliffs,
aside from bridges."
-- in the soup
the brain of Reason...

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Harmless guest


Underneath Zoom chair
Some small creature fleeing in confusion

Ah ha, a brown lizard, harmless four-legged guest

Hiding and scared, aren’t you?
So am I
Please do not visit...

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AVOIDING CRUEL TASK BY CANDLELIGHT - DH

her shadow quivers.
(the hemisphere of
a potted plant cool -
a divisive mind.)
she stands in the soil.

she cannot move
for she’s been...

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warm spring day dipping toes in the cool creek I spot a geode; a large specimen, of crystals that I will clean  and admire...

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I miss marigold mornings 
with soft sunrises and perfumed wind 
whispering through willow branches 
and watercolour windows
to join the sultry scent of caramel coffee.
I long...

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Peace lily a potted plant
Long enerald leaves with white blooms
Simple teracota pot contains and nourishes
A sympathy gift, a daily reminder-forget me not!

I hear Wallace whisper,...

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COTTAGE IN THE WOODS

It’s hazy
A scrim tints all shades the same – like the
Washed-yellow flowers fronting a shallow pond –
Making ghostly the cozy, little cottage...

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I came from a land of redneck drinkers, who mounted deer heads on walls without sheetrock. It was a simpler time. You shot or hooked...

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