Wildflower Gardens
...Glossy, heart-shaped leaves of galax
ringed ‘round the lingering lilacs
that played across the garden gate,
bent now – bowed from foliage’ weight.
Wild roses replace Venus et fleur
having a sw...
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Categories:
coreopsis, creation, environment, flower, garden,
Form: Rhyme
My Wildflower Bouquet
...A walk through the meadow seems in order
The sun is peaking through some wispy cloud,
Coreopsis is in full bloom along the border
While verbena and cosmos are standing proud.
I make...
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Categories:
coreopsis, animal, bird, flower, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Peach Sherbert Garden
...Blush peach gerbera daisies
Echinacea marmalade
Angel’s trumpet cassie’s curls
Chantilly peach snapdragon
Christa coral bells
Daylily tangerine
Apricot whirl narcissus
A la mode dahlia
Zinnia...
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Categories:
coreopsis, appreciation, beautiful, color, flower,
Form: Free verse
Spring Flowers
...Spring flowers
Artemisia bear the colourful foliage
Bluebells carpet a magical sight
Coreopsis and cherries blossom
Daffodils are seen in jovial mood
Eranthis buds as the snow melts,
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Categories:
coreopsis, beautiful, spring, daffodils,
Form: Abecedarian
The Forever Bees
...The Forever Bees
Spring passed without them…
Their forever hum of summer was silent;
no hopeful tending to timid crocus,
no ceaselessness in the heat of the coreopsis field,
none of their hurr...
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Categories:
coreopsis, nature,
Form: Blank verse
The End of Summer
...When poppies in the garden bleed,
and coreopsis goes to seed,
and pansies blossoming past their prime,
grow smaller and smaller all the time.
When on the mown field, shrunk and dry,
brown dock a...
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Categories:
coreopsis, seasons
Form: Rhyme