GARDEN PLANTS
...The fern spreads out to form a perfect fan,
A pleasing show with pristine symmetry.
Proud fronds with discipline, a splendid sight
And offspring fiddleheads are unfurling.
On verticals the ivy...
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Categories:
digitalis, garden,
Form: Blank verse
Shades
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"Shades"
You shade me
I shade you
stops the sun burning
eternally through
long nights’ deep bleed
the blue birds lead the way;
"definitely no more flowers",
you say.
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Categories:
digitalis, heart, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Blue Shotgun Lantana
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"As other spirits sail on music, mine, oh my love, swim on your perfume." Charles Baudelaire
"Sometimes you find an old bottle from which the soul returns."
Charles Baudelaire
"Smell is...
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Categories:
digitalis, muse, mystery, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Julius Caesar
...Oh, Caesar, though our touch is lost in time:
Weeks, passing years, and years long eons, passed,
I still can hear and feel in learnéd rhyme
Your essence. Like some bee which has amassed
Sweets of...
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Categories:
digitalis, history,
Form: Sonnet
Ode To a Bee
...Swift bee, the gilded messenger of bliss,
Begirt with golden stars of Heaven’s span,
What draws you to the clover’s gentle kiss?
Sweet nectars, that the strongest drinker can
Carouse ...
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Categories:
digitalis, spring,
Form: Ode
Pharaoh's Hound
...Captives hold a captive with ropes
A lion who roamed free
The duck in fear runs like the wind
Figure beside palm tree
Pharaoh Hounds enjoy life of ease
At their owners' pleasure
But if t...
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Categories:
digitalis, art, imagination,
Form: Ekphrasis
Foxglove's Trumpet Shape
...foxglove's trumpet shape
flowers sweet nectar attracts...
slows hummers' heartbeat
Click on about this poem
Pictures attached there
Written by: Sara Kendrick
Poem includes word fl...
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Categories:
digitalis, nature, sweet, sweet,
Form: Haiku
The Enchanter
...with unseen bloody fingers she sings a melody but with
purely visual aesthetic and woos even the strictest stoic
& with subtle soft petal bells hanging,
now 2 years old, standing nearly 8 feet tall
y...
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Categories:
digitalis, life, may,
Form: Free verse
Foxgloves
...Digitalis purpurea (Scrophulariaceae)
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Conspicuous height with a nitrogen foil
A tubular flourish and biennial splice-
The loveliest fiesta in a sandy loam soil
Discovers...
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Categories:
digitalis, nature, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Foxglove Years
...Adrift in a foreign country, walking in canvas shoes,
I brushed the purple petals and felt
Chemicals invade through my fingertips;
Then kissed my fingers at the statue on the beach, tasted digital...
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Categories:
digitalis, allegory, lost love, passion,
Form: Blank verse