Day Lily Poems - Poems about Day Lily

WATCH THE LILIES BLOOM

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Ava, our youngest granddaughter, headed off to college yesterday…
And as another milestone is passed….
I wonder how it’s possible the years have flown by so fast.

As I walked up to hug her and...

Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about Spring 2

...Matsuo Basho English Translations of haiku about spring, birds, bats, butterflies, flowers, sun, cherry.

Seeing them naked
almost makes me caress
the wanton flowers.
—Matsuo Basho, translation ...

The Disquieting Threat of Hazardous Blooms

...I avoid those floral gangsters,
vainglorious Gladioli,
eugenically forced greenhouse Geraniums
with their large Shar-pei heads.
Garish claustrophobic chromatic mobs,
their heavy menacing over-cu...

The Disquieting Threat of Floral Hazards

...He avoided florists,
those over-cultivated blooms
in their overheated shops
seemed to be a perversion of nature.

He shunned all those floral gangsters;
the vainglorious gladioli,
eugenically ...

Keeping Cool While Being Transprted

...Shall we be carried away like fish,
or a bird scooped up from a pond of sky?

Will winged creatures of mythical belief assemble
at one synaptic point, just for each sudden death?

Will we go ho...

Day Lily

...from day lily blooms
to tiger lily blossoms....
flits a hummingbird     ...

Black Beauty Kitty Cat

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I love black cats and have had a few,
had one once with rare eyes of blue !

They have short or long velvety fur,
and sometimes will run around in a blur !

Black cats are friend...

The Mountain Wakes Up

...The bullfrog leads to a croaking sound. 
Haunting the summertime downpour. 
It's once entirely stumped in an emerald. 
Streams with a distorted side outdoor.

My angling bar is im...

The Disquieting Threat of Hazardous Blooms

...I avoid florists, not the people,
who generally speaking,
are polite and quite unremarkable.

I write of those floral gangsters;
the vainglorious gladioli,
eugenically forced greenhouse geraniu...

''Time''

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What was, is gone and what is-   but a moment in time
I used to help mother in her lush green garden
but the pendulum stopped its lurching
and she was gone . . .
now I have a garden...

Held Too Long

...The-lit-wick-burnt-quick
I am the dipped stick
People are always referencing to

For two reasons:
One, is that I held on too long
Two, is because all but two fingers are gone

Lets look on th...

Brooding Rooted

...I sit and watch. 

Changes come so slowly. 
So, vigilance is required,
an attentiveness to minutia.
There are layers of wardings 
erected        between
the watch 	and I. 

Thoughts, which f...

Burning Daylight Day Lily

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Hurry, hurry we are burning daylight,
      The flowers are wilting;
Mother was planting a cottage garden,
And we needed the right perennials;
Flowers durable, enduring, perpetual,
      O...

Listen To Nature At Night

...How delightful is the softest sound of a clear and starry summer's night,
You may hear a moth bashing up against a cottage window pane near a lamp,
If you listen really hard you can hear him amongst ...

Yellow Day Lily

...Yellow day lily's bloom
Tightly pinched the blossom
Against the morning's cold
Last bud of summer 
Soon 'oar's frost will close  

Gogyohka form...

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