Best Trillium Poems

silent shadows sing praise to 
gossamer lace the Spider webs

give shape O fearless Wolf,
the night awaits your merciless feast

listen, Heaven calls you Trumpeter Swan!
your voice...

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Three delicate white petals plus three green leaves
describes Ontario's official flower.
Songbirds migrate back to sing in early spring, 
and depending on the rain the ground...

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Uprooting dreams
of yesterday
time sows the seeds
of tomorrow.

And clouds shed tears
of April rain
as winter wanes
and warmth abounds.

Fleeing far-flung
sanctuaries
migrating birds
start heading home.

And on the winds
of open sky
caterpillars
try...

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In the wet garden this morning, I saw a teeny tiny woman made of leaves and herbs, with the orange bloom of a woodland poppy...

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I wandered lone as I did seek
Through silent woods and rustling leaves
Down the hill to the flowing creek 
Away from life's stress causing heaves
There I...

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"I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" by William Wordsworth 



I wandered lonely as a geek
Through silent woods and rustling leaves
Down the hill to the flowing...

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Bluebells are a ringin' and springin' up like kites.
Thyme is rustling along, glimpsing at dazzling sights.

Fox tails are a wagin' in the breeze, zig-zagin',
strutting their...

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winding down
distant farmhouse kitchen light
harsh winter night



Published in The Trillium Haiku Group Anthology 2022 "-to hang my hat"

AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on June 2, 2021...

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I will walk at eleven.
Easy trip, short, sweet ramble
Down to the creek, midheaven
Is close, just a short amble.

Where the sparse, sweet trillium
Grows, also lofty goshawk
Whose...

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It`s summer and it`s pleasing
           in 12 shades of green.
     ...

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Spring flowers





Artemisia bear the colourful foliage
Bluebells carpet a magical sight
Coreopsis and cherries blossom
Daffodils are seen in jovial mood
Eranthis buds as the snow melts,
Forsythia screams it's...

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Spring Flowers 


Another day she floated by so silently and poetically so graciously
Brightened each day quite magnificently as she held blossoming Begonia's
Captivated and enthralled by...

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Ontario    in Iroquois is-
Kanadario         meaning sparkling water

the British     claimed the...

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Ambitious Amaryllis arrive soon,
Bloodroots  beauty appears to bloom.
Colourful Camellias  grow in shade,
Daffodils  dance in garden parade.

English-daisies  pretend as innocent,
Freesia  flowers...

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The Wild One


I watched, as in a dream mist….

….after a day of rain, fog rolling in off the rocks of Lake Superior

Three large deer, nibbling...

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