Flowers
...Forsythia my friend, I still cannot not discern,
does a fiddlehead unravel into a lacy fern?
Lilly pads, flowered floating seats for fortunate frogs.
Monet’s favorite plant at his Giverny bog. ...
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Categories:
echinacea, flower,
Form: Acrostic
Digging my own grave synonymous with a sense of accomplishment
...Digging my own grave synonymous with a sense of accomplishment
Quite an undertaking
to break ground
figuratively, and symbolically linkedin
while able bodied and mindedness
readies cemetery pl...
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Categories:
echinacea, addiction, age, angel, atheist,
Form: Free verse
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:
echinacea, bird, flower, imagery, insect,
Form: Rhyme
F L O W E R
...Fantastic fabulous frisky faeries flitter forever
Luxuriously loving lady-like likeable lilies
Obliterating outgoing outlandish ostentatious orchid
Wonderful whimsical warmhearted warlock wiggle...
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Categories:
echinacea, flower,
Form: Acrostic
Tender Is the Day After
...Scratches and abrasions sensate,
stalking, doxing, ghosting drones
have pinched, clawed, and marked.
I remember the sharp edges of yesterday
but cannot recall the moments
when the bumps and b...
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Categories:
echinacea, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Pair
...They were a pair
a match set.
He, brilliant yellow with black lined wings,
she, a mottled green tinged brown.
As she ate seedlings from the echinacea
he waited and watched.
they each sing ...
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Categories:
echinacea, bird,
Form: Blank verse
A Time of Butterflies
...It's the time of butterflies to fly
angelic wings drifting hurried by
in the powdered blue clouded sky;
retrograde illusions left from spring
revolving a floating dance upon the wing
ventu...
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Categories:
echinacea, butterfly,
Form: Rhyme
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:
echinacea, appreciation, beautiful, color, flower,
Form: Free verse
Mantis Religiosa
...There she was ,
perched upon the upper stalk
of the echinacea flower cone
Leaning left then right
in upright posture,
yet stationary with fore arms folded,
the praying mantis
once...
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Categories:
echinacea, blessing, insect, life,
Form: Free verse
''Flying Gems''
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I am standing in my garden amongst the beautiful flowers,
when a kaleidoscope of butterflies comes silently drifting.
Past my lovely primrose rockery, so bright and brilliant,
they...
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Categories:
echinacea, butterfly, garden,
Form: Couplet
''Fluttering Gems''
...As I stood in my garden amongst my flowers,
a parade of blue butterflies was drifting;
past my lovely brilliant primrose rock garden,
they kissed a purple cornflower growing.
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Categories:
echinacea, butterfly, flower, garden,
Form: Verse
Butterfly Kisses
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As I stand in my garden amongst my flowers,
a parade of butterflies comes a drifting,
past my lovely brilliant Primrose rock garden,
and kiss my purple Cone flowers, blooming.
Th...
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Categories:
echinacea, butterfly, garden,
Form: Rhyme
On a Summer Morning Humid
...Sticky wisps
spider's web
Milky hands
blood of weeds
Chyrsalide empty
butterfly breathes
on a summer morning humid
Scent absorbing
plum tree sweetened
Crickets tuning
notes of the season
B...
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Categories:
echinacea, happiness, life, nature, peace,
Form: Rhyme