Flower Firework Poems

Like a sparkling Roman candle
   Parry’s penstemon dots the canyon.
Oh what deep purple bells! –
   That decorate the trail along

Where pebblestones...

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Golden moonflower 
Rising in your periwinkle sky
As chrysanthemums bloom and die
In bursts of sparkling showers

You shake your head and sigh
Watching into the wee hours
With all...

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*** A DAISY TALE ***

A single, wild, tiny daisy
Less than a thumbnail in size, swaying side to side
In the slight, burning whiffs of a summer’s...

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January…new year, new me.
Met you and now I’m happy. 
We watched the ball drop and kissed at midnight.


My February Valentine
hearts and flowers because you’re mine
as...

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Pandora's Equation
 
The box was beautiful. 
It held everything ugly in one place. 
It was meant to be a prison, 
to create safety on the...

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Green

Pools of cool water, 
stones made...
in the great fire,
at the edge of the world. 

The essence of the future, 
the presence of the past.
Your eyes......

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quivering wildflowers waltz in meadows 
alder leaves shimmer like wings of flying teal 
cattails sway as breezes along the river slows 
dandelions dreaming of a...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Small silver explosions 
mob the expectant air like paparazzi’s flashes.  

Soon, giant hydrangeas bloom fluorescent,  
spread like a bouquet of slow-motion Big Bangs,...

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I know the land where the lemon-trees flower,
South of the border, in the Sunshine State.
Where the warmth lifts up a lithesome sunflower
and the sour juice...

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Dictionary in hand Bobbies
     manned state of the spy craft created
strategic peripheral outposts
     a comma dated,

(sans syntax...

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The glass of my dreams just fell
off the floor
fragments of crystal 
all over the floor
too many to count
said good -bye to my life
with a note...

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Millions of magnificent miniature marvels,
shoulder to shoulder, sharing your showy shrub
as rich red rumblings rise from your racy petals.
Like sounds of cymbals you slice the...

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