Introspection Flower Poems

Nature's flower runs through my fears,
Her old seasons there interceding
On the silver gray blunt of the shears,
Where the stem—sharpened by night—is keeping
For the day's rain...

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Written: April 20, 2024
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Under childish thumb
   picking dandelion teeth
stained in ochre crumb....

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To look on the 
storm's face in
the passion of 
shorn weeds— the
flower cannot eat;
green squeezed;
riddled rain 
disease.

Ground set; glory
ebbed— shaking in
sheds; another 
stem's shine and
shimmer...

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the winter sun aches with me— slipping through a tulip's ghost...

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When is the totality,
for the city shake
of shoulders—
meant to pick a
tulip from its smile?

The moment she's pulled
from her planet
reveries— she writhes 
and slowly droops,
her face,...

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Today I took the time to sit 
and watch the flowers grow.
In the stillness of their beauty 
they said all I need to know.

I leaned...

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The fiery tiger lilies upon greenest stems are blossoming
As the sunset behind the gray clouds is dimly glowing.
Gratitude for how every one of us just...

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i sit alone confined between these 4 walls

if they could talk 

they’d have hidden secrets to tell 

exposing the hardened exterior i dispel 

during my...

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So peculiar
It springs up its head
On late Winter’s bed.  This morning it was
That I fenced in my hand from pulling

The bloom — where put...

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Wait for the shutters to be closed,
we will enter an enclosure
in complete silence,
like a deep cave
which I don't know the way.

My eyes will ignore all...

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Look through the transparent life, 
see happiness bloom in the core, 
for the soul is a flower of bliss 
in the bouquet of divine perception.

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December...

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There at the back 
of my mind like an elusive form…
Out of focus a blur in my inner reality 
never dreamt in nightmares 
waiting to...

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Sitting beside a noisy, restless creek,
rushing water over stones and green moss.
Often, these crazy days, thoughts seem to seek
places to hide from life's tumble and...

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the best of egypt's
heart and soul

the lotus bloom
symbol of purity
and innocence

beauteous reminder
of our personal
spiritual quest

to salvage our long lost 
childlike qualities



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

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