Get Your Premium Membership

Coleus Poems - Poems about Coleus


Premium Member The Seasons of Life
...The winter snow and freeze killed everything I planted in the spring, Rhododendrons, roses, Hawaii hibiscus And the bougainvillea orange king. Parsley, sage and thyme are gone, Peony and pan......

Continue reading...
Categories: coleus, metaphor, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Turnabout
...Georgie Porgie was a little overweight, since he loved tasty desserts, Like puddings and baked pies; or green woods, full of robin concerts. Georgie was ten years of age, possessing an im......

Continue reading...
Categories: coleus, boy, fantasy, girl, growing
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Chicks
...Handpicked, like coffee seeds or strawberries, ten eggs I kept Like a tensed insomniac, for a long time I'd not slept I found a change in the bloom of the dermis as days passed There came out surp......

Continue reading...
Categories: coleus, bird, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Late
...late summer's sunset slowly sinks atop the hill.... red coleus aflame ......

Continue reading...
Categories: coleus, appreciation,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member In Her Garden
...She removed the drops of perspiration from her forehead with the back of her garden glove, leaving nature’s makeup in its place, a small streak of brown soil. As I stared at her, she put her hand abo......

Continue reading...
Categories: coleus, beauty, devotion, flower, heaven,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Violet Garden
... Violet softness blushes the cheeks of the gently swaying purple vinca, and murmurs sweetly of Violet cloud filled breezes caressing their green leave......

Continue reading...
Categories: coleus, color, flower, garden, snow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Briefcase
...Your briefcase sits beside the water can (long dry memento of ivy, coleus, and more exotic plants which perished under your patient, watchful care.) Not good at growing greenery, on paper you ......

Continue reading...
Categories: coleus, allegory, introspection, life, loss,
Form: Epigram
Birds In Paradise
...In the tropics I have held temptation, By its tail not to pluck beauty pieces, Orchids in play with the coleus leaves, Ever green bottle palms and ferns in relief; Twined creepers as they toss ......

Continue reading...
Categories: coleus, life
Form: Free verse
Vincent Van Gogh
...Vincent Van Gogh By Dane Smith-Johnsen Passion tormenting. Acceptance? Unholy flaw. Vibrant colors capturing, All alone he saw. Beyond starry skies at night, Honored by his vibrant bru......

Continue reading...
Categories: coleus, art, death, history, work
Form: Choka

Book: Reflection on the Important Things