A Rose in the Garden of Love
...White rose blooms, a snowy heirloom,
tender flesh with a golden tinge.
‘Pon coneflower iron, with groom
‘Neath trellis, a harlequin binge.
Tender flesh, with a golden tinge,
Those ...
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Categories:
coneflower, beauty, garden, rose,
Form: Pantoum
Wild Flower Love
...O’ my dearest love,
I gather the world’s rarest petals for you—
Ghost Orchid fragrance lingers
in the marsh’s quiet air
look, love, it fades
then rises in
th...
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Categories:
coneflower, devotion, flower, love, memory,
Form: Lyric
Catfished
...The polling centers and their quillz,
that dating app and it’s whisker bait;
Built for ease and practicality;
Those disenfranchised left envious
seek being heard, seek being seen;
A plethora of ...
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Categories:
coneflower, emotions, feelings, humanity, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Nectared Juices Fed-
... sweet is the nectar
chosen you are a flower
milkweed and aster
~
favorite blossom
preference "bee" popular
pollinated plants
~
borage bee come in
inside me lick access my
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Categories:
coneflower, analogy, appreciation, butterfly, insect,
Form: Haiku
My Garden
...
From winter shadow
oh, farewell to snow
bare tree
now, your green leaves grow
and soft breezes blow
carefree ...
buds bloom with gusto
oh, sweet spring hello ...
woes flee
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Categories:
coneflower, flower, garden,
Form: Rhyme
Coneflowers
...the prickly-eyed coneflower bees
attractively buzzing their squeeze.
the purple petal umbrellas.
a lovely echinacea breeze.
butterflies and hummingbirds hove’.*
red-winged blackbir...
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Categories:
coneflower, bird, flower, imagery, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Purple Coneflower
...Unsung heroes of the garden fringes
Perennial favorites for a colorful bouquet,
Purple coneflowers with yellow twinges.
Violets are sweet…, yes, they are okay,
But they are too small, coneflowe...
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Categories:
coneflower, beauty, flower, garden,
Form: Terzanelle
The Bee Haven
...
“ ... the bee collects nectar and departs without
injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance .... "
Quote from _ Quotefancy
I am a bee and ...
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Categories:
coneflower, animal, emotions,
Form: Personification
Garden Secrets
...Damselfly breeze floats on a summers’ day
Carefree with love and delight in her way
Monarch butterfly arrives soon after
Ruffled marigolds hear tiny laughter
Grasshopper, not sure if he’s inv...
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Categories:
coneflower, garden,
Form: Sonnet
Scarlet Cone Flower Stuns Some
...Awed by the scarlet cone flower’s beauty, I sense her purity.
I give her a reverent birth, thrilled by her loveliness.
Her confidence oozes into the garden with rapt maturity.
She has a delicate c...
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Categories:
coneflower, flower,
Form: Quatrain
My Minutes In a Garden
...I heard the sawing drone of the diligent bumblebee before he emerged from the coneflower. He was preoccupied, and busy, heading for his next marigold. It does sound like a buzzing, I thought. I did n...
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Categories:
coneflower, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Haibun
Flowers I Ordered
...great buy.
bcmgva.0rg
Purchase Date:
May 1, 2021
Payment to:
Brunswick County Master Gardener Volunteer Association
bcmgvat@gmail.com Payment from:
Jill Horn
jilloh2@atmc.net
Quanti...
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Categories:
coneflower, analogy,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Puddle of Petals
...Dedicated to Evelyn Judy Buehler. I love the joy
and color she brings to her poetry!
Pink puddle of petals, precious
underneath the parasol tree.
Celebrant-pear in bridal white —
pa...
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Categories:
coneflower, garden, imagery,
Form: Verse
Spring Kissed Field
...purple coneflower
nectar monarchs saunter on
squirrel bounds across
3/20/2021...
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Categories:
coneflower, butterfly, flower, spring,
Form: Haiku
Heathcote Dares To Offer a Solution
...Privately Peony practiced the art of purple magic
Reaching into her ruffian wand,
Lingering lovingly for a second or two
Outrageous? Sure. Ostentatious? She hoped so!
Further down in the feathe...
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Categories:
coneflower, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
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