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Gladioli Poems - Poems about Gladioli

Premium Member The Mockery Garden
...The girl, new, fresh; wandered innocently through the mockery; the type the English are so fond of building. Fronds of false friendship brushed against her vir......

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Categories: gladioli, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Gladioli
...They have frowsy flamboyant hats, some are born English, while others are obviously alien. They need a deep corner to thrive, or a high ceiling. Like Maasai maidens their necks are stretche......

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Categories: gladioli, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Glads
... Spring rain was forecast, it came. showers licking the earth, also the bald spot on the top of my head. under my collar, down my back, skin gets squirmy. In the store, I’m thinking of buyi......

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Categories: gladioli, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Disquieting Threat of Hazardous Blooms
...I avoid those floral gangsters, vainglorious Gladioli, eugenically forced greenhouse Geraniums with their large Shar-pei heads. Garish claustrophobic chromatic mobs, their heavy menacing over-cu......

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Categories: gladioli, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Gladioli
...a kiss after a verbose dispute gladioli  October 14, 2023......

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Categories: gladioli, flower, happiness, imagery, kiss,
Form: Senryu



The Disquieting Threat of Floral Hazards
...He avoided florists, those over-cultivated blooms in their overheated shops seemed to be a perversion of nature. He shunned all those floral gangsters; the vainglorious gladioli, eugenically ......

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Categories: gladioli, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sensual Loss Sensual Gain
...Her golden locks glide grandly through our gladioli gilded garden gateway, I gulp ginormous groundbreaking gulleys, telltale tear tsunamis cut cataclysmic currents, raw reckless rupture of romant......

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Categories: gladioli, birth, color, courage, deep,
Form: Alliteration
Glads
...You love African violets. It was a surprise then when you confessed a passion for gladioli, I will learn to live with them. We bring home bunches from Walmart, vivid, over-the-top floral ......

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Categories: gladioli, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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: gladioli, dedication, remembrance day,
Form: Rhyme
Glads
...You love African violets. It was a surprise then when you confessed a passion for Gladioli. We bring home thickets of them vivid, over-the-top floral giraffes. They dwarf everything in th......

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Categories: gladioli, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Glad Tidings
...Spring rain was forecast, and it came. It ran out of the sky, it felt like millions of sloppy puppy kisses a warm wetness just so happy to lick the earth and the bald spot on the top of m......

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Categories: gladioli, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Word Quintet In E Minor
...Word Quintet in E Minor Too many tan hearses cruise down my street in 1963 Too many grieving souls cry shattered tears here. Green throbbing lawns ruminate like grazing cows. Red-bricked chimne......

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Categories: gladioli, childhood, memory,
Form: Free verse
Predictable
...It was predictable You would come And smile I cleaned the stable Put a handsome bouquet of roses On a table In the right hand corner Near the window Put some white gladioli Wrapped with......

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Categories: gladioli, life,
Form: Free verse
Glads
...You love African violets. It was a surprise then when you confessed a passion for gladioli, (I will learn to live with them). We bring home bunches from Walmart -vivid, over-the-top f......

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Categories: gladioli, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
The Disquieting Threat of Hazardous Blooms
...I avoid florists, not the people, who generally speaking, are polite and quite unremarkable. I write of those floral gangsters; the vainglorious gladioli, eugenically forced greenhouse geraniu......

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Categories: gladioli, poetry,
Form: Blank verse

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