Kids Flower Poems

Callimachus English translations

For Gail White

To the Cup-Bearer
by Callimachus
translation by Michael R. Burch

Decant the wine then toast "To Diokles!" Nor does the beautiful boy Achelous touch...

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Spring in the air
Easter Time
Easter Eggs
Hunt and find
Search here and there
Jelly Bean Sweet
Kids taste buds treats
Easter baskets assorted
Some are made while others are made to...

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I can see:
The pretty blue sky,
with bright sun shinning.
Fall garden sleeping,
flowers are all dead.
Big bees a buzzing.
 

I can feel: 
Cool breeze touching,
my warm dry...

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In the garden of youth, where the flowers kissed the sky,
We were kids in the sun, with not a worry in our eye.
Playing tag, oh...

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Little sister thought of bouquet so sweet,
For her older sister, gift hard to beat.
She gathered spring flowers, stem to top on
Creating a bouquet bright as...

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What happens to all the oranges
hanging on my neighbors' trees
would they let me have a bag of em
if I bargained or said pretty please

Why are...

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snow
no more
warmer days
birds are singing
squirrels scampering
pretty flowers blooming
kids playing and having fun
lawn mowers are humming away
looks like spring has sprung into color
spring is the very...

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Desert Botanical Garden - Phoenix, AZ

Come and find me in this garden;
   I know not where the hours go.
Palm fronds brush against my...

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Flowers with colours enchant me,
Buds budding and blooming,
Beauty surrounds, fills me with glee,
Nature’s way of grooming;

Critters with colours charm me too,
Paws dancing; tails wagging.
Talented tricks...

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Tall red and pink-tipped spears reach for the nothing-at-all blue sky, all washed out with sunshine. The tight wrapped buds of the hollyhocks are too...

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I like pets, and we have had our share of a few. 
Unfortunately, we never attached to the point of
seeing them as family members. Perhaps...

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Consider the lilies, they neither toil nor spin ~~
		--they don’t have a house full of kids to support!

written January 16, 2022...

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If I could divide the smell of flowers
I'd send some to the falsely charged
Locked in prison cells
Send some to the lonely seniors
Trapped in apartment hells

Send...

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Riss Rumphius lived by the sea
the Lupine Lady, free as can be
tossing seeds for many hours
pleasing kids-- with her flowers

I think she lived a fulfilling...

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The colors of Spring
Yellow is the sun
Green are plants and grass
Pink are the tulips
Clear blue is the sky

The scents of Spring 
Freshly cut grass
Fruit trees...

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