Best Sunflowers Poems

Flirty Sunflowers


sultry sunflowers
stretch long necks to kiss the sun …
on tippy tiptoes

08-01-2014

Contest:      Any Poem Under 5 lines #1
Sponsor:     Poet Destroyer A
Placement:  4th...

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In eastern lands, where once did roam
The winds of peace, and fields of home
Now echoes sound of bombs and gun
As war in Ukraine, is far from done

The sky once blue, now turned to gray
With smoke and dust, that won't away
And children's laughter, now replaced
By cries...

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As brief as summer you swept
across my heart's desert
like a Santa Ana wind's hot caress.
Now the eastern passes
are still as virgin rocks
unto a land whispering 
of forgotten wildflowers.
In your absence marigolds bloom not
with the disappeared mockingbird.
Only as the last petals
of amaryllis wither do I ache.
You...

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Shoulder to shoulder
Yellow petals, smiling faces
A field of delight




sunflowers are grown commercially here. 
It is amazing to see fields of them..all facing the same way....

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Sunflowers like smiling balloons,
round and robust, sounds
of the stem bobbing like a string
tied not to the past but to the soons.

Lost before noon, the duct
let out one final tear. Now
she is nearer to God than me.
Like a sheepdog, I guard my Dad.

Sunflowers, weaved into a...

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In
A bed
They grow tall
Golden yellow
Blossoms surround seed
Pods of dark brown beauty
Prickly, scratchy leaves upon
Strong, sturdy green stalks that reach high
Aiming for illuminating sun   ...

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Sunflowers are black and yellow
You’re a damn cute fellow
Our hands intertwined on the cello
With you, I want to sing the Sh-ha-shallow

Bougainvillea are purple and pink
Let me take you out for a drink
Together our glasses will clink
Oh, you make my heart sink!...

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xanthic sunflowers
fields ablaze with golden blooms …
rainbow arcs in sky

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Stems that stretch out to reach warmth
Undulating in a dewy field
Nodding approval to passersby
Flowers that stand out, boasting huge blooms
Leaving lasting impressions
Our hearts keep these memories
When they fade in autumn’s chill
Each bloom scatters seeds
Replenishing the specie and ensuring their return when
Summer beckons once more



*May 21,...

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In the flowery open field,

   yellow sunflowers,

   colorful suns are......

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sensational eyes -
philanthropical lashes
with sunny outlook...

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This youth, with its curiosity to follow dreams,
always finds us among the tallest sunflowers
that hide us from the bewildered faces
of the common people who surely envy us
for being here between sunset and darkness,
carefully drawing images of a future that could be:
choosing those colors that are...

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She waits...

at that spot he promised to reach...

When the dark blue and grey sky
Lightens up to pink and pearl grey 
At the moment, just before dawn

Under the huge mango tree
Besides the splendid sunflower garden
She waits for him...
With hope...

The young bright golden sunflowers
In the garden
With beautiful...

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After our not so delicious meal, we started home
He turned onto our usual well-worn road
Headed west where we bumped across raised railroad tracks
There at the octagon shaped stop sign turned northwest

Feeling sated and situated on the road home
Home where the old weak heart resides
Home where...

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Sunflowers,
cheddar-cheese petals
surrounding seedy-brown-mustard centers,
stand guard over hot summer pavement
like mighty oaks.
Laughing children
run in and out the yellow forest,
slaying dragons,
rescuing damsels in distress,
then pretending to be astronauts
sailing across space 
to a planet inhabited
by tall, green stalk-like aliens
with golden helmets.
Did van Gogh imagine such things
as he painted...

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