In Your Easter Bonnet
She, in her Easter bonnet
Standing beneath the shade,
Alongside gentlemen in top hats
To view an Easter parade
Church bells ring distantly
Showy, white lilies sway,
Waving to sweet daffodils
On this springtime holiday
Baskets with chocolate rabbits
Jelly beans and colored eggs,
Are carried by happy children
Running by on pudgy legs
A whirl of pastel colors
Meant to delight the eye,
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Categories:
bonnet, candy, celebration, clothes, easter,
Form: Rhyme
Easter
Easter egg hunt for little ones
In green grass under yellow sun
Laughs that grab hearts red sonnet
Bow ties brown eyes and pink bonnet
So cute toddler who picks up a rock
Doesn’t want the emerald egg on top
Another girl seems to fuchsia fear
Easter Bunny with floppy brown ears
Every one excited taking peach photos
Easter memories as valuable
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Categories:
bonnet, america, child, color, girl,
Form: Couplet
Critterature: a Bee In My Bonnet
Behold the busy bumblebee
Gathering pollen and nectar, his treasure.
He transports it home
To be stored in a comb
For his queen to dine on at her leisure.
How doth the humble bumblebee
Manage all that he does without stumbling?
He toils night and day,
Earning minimum pay,
Her commands he'll obey without grumbling.
Wherefore's he called a "bumble bee"?
Throughout all that rough and
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Categories:
bonnet, humor, insect,
Form: Light Verse
Clerihew Bonnet
Leon Joseph Bonnat
a French professor of art
teacher of the great& the good
some of whom you probably would...still know
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Categories:
bonnet, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Bonnet Smiles and Kisses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki7rptpm85M
Lilacs and daffodils seasonal thrills
spilling on the lawn lots of sunshine and light
beaming from a window I hold still
breathing in April, I no longer feel the chill
roses and daisies joyful gardeners dig
waiting for colors of spring to win big
tiny birds chirp while passing the twig
bonnet smiles and kisses
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Categories:
bonnet, spring,
Form: Sonnet
Beth's Straw Bonnet
On an 8 X 10 glossy
you are wearing your
straw bonnet,
smiling with the afternoon sun,
secret thoughts are locked
away within your mind,
given a lifetime sentence
by a disability which is the
keeper of the key,
unwilling to unlock the prison door
that frees you from the
silence of nothingness.
Your eyes the color of
blue forget-me-nots stare
at the world hollowed from drugs
controlling years of
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Categories:
bonnet, child, daughter, memory,
Form: Free verse
Blue Bonnet Songs
Millions of stories sleeping still,
a pollinators chosen thrill.
Enraptured in the splendorous,
I realize nature’s generous.
Mind pensive of those gone before,
who walking these trails by the score,
laid eyes upon blue bonnet stream;
tranquility of Gaia’s dreams.
with eyes of spirit I scan Earth’s breast,
where centuries of history rests.
I sense those waters winding their way;
intrinsic mysteries portrayed.
Water collects as it
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Categories:
bonnet, appreciation, earth, earth day,
Form: Sonnet
Texas Is God Country
Wide mouth bass in the creek so deep
Hidden by blue bonnets who are bristling awake
A luxurious moment on a pretty spring day not asleep
Sun warming up Texas in country lazy sake.
A lone fox watches from trees which hide her from view.
Understanding the danger if we get close to her kits.
Taking them deeper into the forest,
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Categories:
bonnet, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Robert Burns Translation: To a Louse
To a Louse
by Robert Burns
translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Hey! Where're you going, you crawling hair-fly?
Your impudence protects you, barely;
I can only say that you swagger rarely
Over gauze and lace.
Though faith! I fear you dine but sparely
In such a place.
You ugly, creeping, blasted wonder,
Detested, shunned by both saint and sinner,
How dare you set your feet upon
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Categories:
bonnet, animal, body, clothes, funny,
Form: Verse
Easter Bonnet
dispersion of pretty petals springing from a toddler's bonnet
3/30/2019
Picture #3
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Categories:
bonnet, easter, flower,
Form: Monoku
Charles Bonnet Syndrome
I see the garden erupt in an Edwardian funeral,
I see nodding leilandii boil
into a plumed-horse procession,
fuchsia a parade of red-cassocked priests.
I see the window and street beyond, contract
with macular degeneration.
The unrecognised visitors are
sudden, they change suddenly.
Tear streaked children descent
and ascent the stairs, robed in blue and rose,
but they do not accuse me, or humiliate me,
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Categories:
bonnet, angst, sympathy,
Form: Free verse
Aquilegia Granny's Bonnet
Granny’s bonnet
Frilly satin material,
The good old days
How fashion has changed,
And today’s people live,
Their fragrances linger on,
As we gaze upon Aquilegia
With sweetness,
And great pleasure
Pretty purple velvet,
Beauty smiling,
Nature flowering,
Our ancestors live on,
Through her spirit
They bloom every day,
In our hearts,
Reminding us,
Their just a breeze away.
Transporting memories,
Into different realms.
Wendy Jae
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Categories:
bonnet, poetry,
Form: Personification
Bee and Bonnet
I've not just got a bee in my bonnet
No I have a swarm
My temper has gone through the roof
My face as red as a robin
Cheeks cheshnut warm
I'm about to burst
Even the sun has run away
There's gong to be a huge storm
Today!
This an't right that's not right
Nothing in the worlds not right
How dare you how could
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Categories:
bonnet, angst, funny, giggle, hilarious,
Form: Light Verse
At the Tartan Bonnet
At the Tartan Bonnet
next to the Smithy’s stall,
a picture labelled monster
is hanging on the wall.
The photograph is fuzzy,
looks like a bunch of tyres,
held to a piece of deadwood
by nails and string, or wires.
The locals say that tourists
are gullible, rich fools,
that no sign has been noted
by scientific tools.
The view over the water
is really rather good;
another compensation
is
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Categories:
bonnet, fantasy, fun, humor, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Beth's Straw Bonnet
On an 8 X 10 glossy,
you are wearing your
straw bonnet,
smiling with the afternoon sun,
secret thoughts are locked
away within your mind,
given a life-time sentence
by a disability which is the
keeper of the key,
unwilling to open the prison door
which frees you from the
silence of nothingness,
your eyes the color of
blue forget-me-nots stare
at the
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Categories:
bonnet, daughter, drug,
Form: Prose
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