.
Not the
Perennial
For
The flower showed
Past
Twice
Mine winterz
Mine prayer answered
That the flower
Be not the biennial
for
Appear yesss
Did it
For mine
Rest
Bloomed
Beaming
Thoroughly arresting
Sequestering
Mine
the eccentric
bard
Bosom best-buddy Beta Beta Beta boys begin bonding by bringing before biennial brunches:
bouncier basketballs
budget bean burritos
bounteous beefy burgers
beautiful broad-minded busty boyfriend-less babes
better bottled Bavarian/Belgian beers
The dandelion, a broad-leaf perennial,
life with very distinct stages.
Don’t confuse it with a biennial
cause this plant has five changes.
Seedlings made of yellowish leaves
form a basal rosette, oval in shape.
And as it ages the oval achieves
a very different kind of fate.
As the plant begins to mature,
the leaves transform with edges.
They are toothed and jagged for sure.
Come watch as it progresses.
Once the plant is mature enough,
it sits flat on the ground.
I know you’re waiting for the puff,
but it is nowhere to be found.
The roots are thick and strong,
and now it’s time for her to flower.
She stands tall with stem so long,
and a yellow flower will tower.
The fruit will form inside the yellow,
and is brown and yet quite small.
This is an elongated oval fellow,
with pappus white hairs overall.
So that’s the stages of her life,
the dandelion, a changing girl.
You waited patiently through all five,
so blow real hard and watch ‘em whirl!
Blooms Have Come to an End
There is a flower with blooms that are continual
That are also biennial or may be perennial
Steadily desiring to return year after year
Until when winter approaches and is near.
When winter has arrived and is finally here
All of the still blooms soon start to disappear
Until they have all dried and become brown
And appears to be worn like a nightgown.
Early spring they attempt to return again
And as the more that spring tries to sets in
Buds again will become a bountiful bloom
For a favorite vase you find in every room.
Each cycle in the year will come and go
Truly so lovely when watching flowers grow
Before dying blooms have reached an end
To beautiful wife bouquet do want to send.
Poems and Plays of Robert Browning
Edited by Myra Reynolds, Ph.D. University
of Chicago was used for thoughts and ideas.
James Thomas Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet
River Sea Plantation
Bolivia, NC
Digitalis purpurea (Scrophulariaceae)
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Conspicuous height with a nitrogen foil
A tubular flourish and biennial splice-
The loveliest fiesta in a sandy loam soil
Discovers importance as seedlings suffice
Flowering spikes sharing things that we love
Pave avenues deep with a dark purple haze,
On various occasions, display the foxglove
Pixie hat throngs viewing grassy green baize
A prominent place giving height to all orders
Can constitute class looking down on its kin
Queen of the hills whilst the smallest of borders
Look back at the foxglove to see if it is in.
Optimum lies where the reasons are many
When sharing the secrets foxgloves take part
Illusions repeat, diagnosed, though if any
Embrace digitalis, for strengthening the heart.