Hi May
...Hi January
I miss you
ah, not you
but January. I miss May,
who smiled in the flower field
to the strains of the melancholic song
that played in my head at that time.
Hi May, let's go togethe...
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Categories:
celosia, beach, happiness, middle school,
Form: Free verse
Celosia in My Garden
...in my periphery
you arrived at my door
with your guns and cannons
i wondered why the uproar?
marched into my house with full force
and aimed your cannons at my door
to destroy my peace and drag...
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Categories:
celosia, anger,
Form: Free verse
Flowers Shall Grow
...From our bodies, dead and deceased,
of decaying flesh rotted off bone,
poking through loose lavish soil
flowers sprout and feed from the sun
From the corpse's arm, a reeling ranunculus
reaches...
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Categories:
celosia, death, earth, flower, garden,
Form: Free verse
The Chill of Autumn
...The chill of Autumn’s months begins to be felt.
A gaggle of snow-white geese fly down south.
How delightful to hear the Fall’s sounds
Of finches and red breasted robins flying around.
A gagg...
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Categories:
celosia, autumn,
Form: Pantoum
An Autumn Floral Display
...What a great grandma I have.
Flowers come natural to her.
Now why can’t I too
Have green fingers like her?
End of September is the beginning of Fall.
Yellow sunflowers lower their head...
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Categories:
celosia, flower,
Form: Free verse
Autumn Nostalgia
...Rambling around, gardens greet us,
faint scents permeate the air.
Late sunflowers start to hang their heads,
crinkled celosia "cristata" adorn haughty patches,
while blue Agapanthus demand queen ...
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Categories:
celosia, autumn,
Form: Free verse