Sonnet Garden Poems

Sonnet I

In realms of emerald hush, where sunlight strains
Through veils of green, a silent throng takes root,
A clovered congregation on the plains,
Their stoic forms a...

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Bursts of blooming colors in my garden fair 
every bud is beauty born of love and toil  
rays of sunshine easy days and breezy...

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Is a rose of red, or white just a rose?
they have the scent to hypnotize us all,
some flowers’ scent like jasmine's is intense,
reminds me of...

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Yes, Growing A Fine Ole Southern Garden

In the garden strawberries are dancing about so red
Momma's cantaloupes laying there just waiting to be ate
Over there luscious...

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I relish spring's green growth; plants at their best 
and babies after mama birds build nests.
But I cherish summer trips on fishing boats, 
going barefoot,...

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In the final week they still swept their floors.
A gate was mended on the third last day -
the people in the village so stuck in...

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My wife and I proud of our luscious lawn,
Some mischievous children took a shortcut
Strode on the grass, each like an evil fawn,
We old couple could...

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Dawn brings tenderest dewdrop dreams
Breathtaking promises will sing
Inviting joy in soft sunbeams
Blazing paths with sweetness of spring

First light whispers gentle traces
Amazing the spirit, praising
Combining kind...

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Where beauty lies, let beauty lie – 
Let not the rose from where it lies
In beauty be disturbed – Let not
The bed on which it...

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You stepped into the garden
arrived the Bougainvillea of the spring
stanzas of poetry

You're putting on the big eyeglasses
lips on bouquet get concealed behind
the maze of metaphor

In...

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My green autumn, you goaded me to write.
I love the way you sparkle, shake, and hurl.
Conquering my mind day and by the night,
Always musing about...

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The loam of Human Kindness, friable,
Can be compact within a mortal grasp,
Yet loose as needs release and pliable
For the roots of Compassion to enclasp.
Warmer emotions...

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Within the joy of love's garden, we lie,
you and I, we do share a Heaven's embrace,
we share our passions as stars do float by,
in reflective...

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The Old Rusty Gate

Bright sunbeams puddle on a summer road,
Lazy bumblebees rise up with the heat,
Leads to a rusty gate, mysteries bode,
Barrier opens wide, invites...

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On this spring day- the sky is azure blue,
the creeping pink Phlox wants to cascade down;
pretty striped Sweet William seek to spread too,
in my...

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