Daisy Daze
...I was a successful, fashionable florist, in mild green days of elegant gardens,
When an orange sun beamed its pleasure, like locales where lavender begins.
I formed arrangements for many occasion...
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Categories:
gerberas, beautiful, fantasy, flower, imagery,
Form: Couplet
The Sun Shall Rise
...I’ve labored,
I’ve sowed, and watered
Now, I wait.
The sun shall rise,
My seed shall grow.
And the heavens shall open up,
To weep.
Bathing in the sun’s rays,
And rain from last night, tri...
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Categories:
gerberas, dedication, remembrance day,
Form: Rhyme
Sunflowers Now and Forever
...Sunflowers bloom beneath a tinted blue sky, white dollop clouds in
Undulating fashion, hovering over yellow petals and deep golden seeds.
Nestled in soil slim tall and b...
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Categories:
gerberas, appreciation, flower,
Form: Acrostic
Gerberas For Our First Meeting
...Alluring dainty gerberas, a floral gift
Gorgeous in crimson, pearl white and lemony hue.
Long lasting, befitting gift to a lovely lass
Cut fresh from my fragrant old garden where they grew.
Lig...
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Categories:
gerberas, flower, love,
Form: Verse
Dreaming
...I was like living in the desert
who dreamed for raindrops,
but only sandstorms came--
who dreamed for gerberas too,
but only cactus plants I'd seen--
stinging in my sagging skin....
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Categories:
gerberas, pain,
Form: I do not know?
Long Distance Soul Mate's Love
...Like so, our fingers gently entwine
We are in Capistrano again
Gazing at young swallows perched on boughs...
The perpetual murmur of reeds finds me
Entranced by gerberas as they
Unwrap yellow ...
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Categories:
gerberas, devotion, love,
Form: Free verse
Lapis Legacy
...In teal sunset
Gerberas whisper cyan secrets
jade eyes already misty
with turquoise tears
translucent as bee wings
In daisy diaspora they have germinated
a lapis legacy throughout my garden
to...
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Categories:
gerberas, color, flower, garden,
Form: Imagism
Spring Flowers
...Azalea of new
Bring the cornflower New
Evening Sun absorbed by the Glory of the snow
Calling upon the peach blossom slow
Ever the Lilacs are mixed fair
Dote on the Gerberas over there
Abridge a...
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Categories:
gerberas, love,
Form: Abecedarian
Uninformed Guest
...Uninformed Guest
I heard a knock on my door
Rushed out to see my uninformed guest
But saw the glistening shadows of my potted palms
Pansies and colourful gerberas wafting in the wind
About...
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Categories:
gerberas, assonance, child abuse, garden,
Form: Blank verse
Bluebell-Judicious Being
...A shade of Turquoise,
Vibrant and lengthy,
Smooth like blueberries,
Thick like quilt,
Wrapped in ribbon,
Neatly and tight.
Eyes like pandas,
Big and bold,
Lashes like spiders,
Most are n...
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Categories:
gerberas, body, imagination,
Form: Sestina
Spring Recital
...an attentive passerby can hear the full bloom raucous
gardens have been awakened by the iridescent sun
tulip orchids, with their gray-green leaves of glaucous
heed to chimes of silver and blue bel...
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Categories:
gerberas, imagination, nature, spring, spring,
Form: Rhyme