Flora
...Flora
Season of love and natural propense,
In youthful exuberance with wholeness of innocence;
When Flora casts off her wintery shroud and bursts into flower,
Screaming to the world, <>
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Categories:
chloris, art, history, mythology, spring,
Form: Verse
On Botticelli's the Birth of Venus
...Her eyes draw a heavenly peace to mind,
Where the green color of the sea doth dwell.
Her face is a beauteous wishing well,
Which reveals her splendor to all mankind.
Her golden hair gently blows ...
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Categories:
chloris, art, beautiful, beauty, birth,
Form: Sonnet
When Does Chloris Arrive
...When does Chloris Arrive
The marigolds were a twitter
The tea roses were entranced
The faerie princess doing cartwheels
The lambs ears were brushing sweetly against each other
The brownies rapid...
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Categories:
chloris, spring,
Form: Imagism
Spring Gardens
...Nemesis of well tended graveyards
flourish with abundant life—
luscious with nourishing reward.
Birds and worms feast without strife:
basking in the sun are ripe red tomatoes;
rivaled only by ...
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Categories:
chloris, analogy, beauty, environment, garden,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Four Winds
...Boreas laughs and of his power we will know
His breath in anger, a white blanket appears
He breathes out the north wind and snow
The master of cold and snow it appears
Zephyrus the calm one, s...
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Categories:
chloris, mythology,
Form: Rhyme
Adieu
...Already the leaves are staining red,
Blood, too thin, seeps through taut skin,
Capillaries weak walled and weeping;
Dying Summer bows proud head,
Emptied of green glory;
Filled, fiery cauldrons ...
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Categories:
chloris, beauty, bereavement, death, summer,
Form: Abecedarian
Robert Burns
...Raging winds around her blowing
O that's the lassie of my heart [she's]
Braving angry winter storms [my]
Esteem for Chloris [but]
Remorseful apolo...
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Categories:
chloris, write,
Form: Acrostic