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Gladiolus Poems - Poems about Gladiolus

Out of Touch

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Like A Moth Attracted to Glow
Tethered Bonds Starved of Light Cannot Grow
Denied Accessed, Insouciant Persona At Best
I Imagined My Savior Ambivalent, 
Celibate Soul, Core Suppressed
I've neve...
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Categories: gladiolus, fantasy, flower, imagination,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFlames of Fortitude

...P e a c e is a language
spoken between
healing bougainvilleas 
and bleeding begonias,
dripping dews of hope
through simple gestures~
like specks of sapphire dust
from stars sparkling
amidst b...
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Categories: gladiolus, courage,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberSnapdragon

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I know I am her favorite flower;
I shoot up in a spike of yellow bloom
to snatch her attention away
from all other flowers 
at home in this small garden patch.
...but the Gladiolus is coming
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Categories: gladiolus, flower,
Form: Personification

Premium MemberDress De Flor

...Dress De Flor
 
Red Gladiolus
is the flower of August,
fashion fabulous.
A dressmakers dream?
Spaghetti stringed halter top,
and blouson waistline
Made of real flowers?
Fabrics wired to flar...
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Categories: gladiolus, fashion, funny,
Form: Choka

August - 5th Place

...Amber lights grace the holiday 
Unfolding hope for hearts in gray 
Gladiolus bloom in shades of pink 
Under the beams of lights that sink 
Spinel sparks inspiration 
To hopeful hearts in motion
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Categories: gladiolus, august,
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member- Flowers Girl -

...Glittering beauty her name is Gladiolus
                         Into blossom of her ringing heart Geranium
                           Rich spectrum of different colors Gerbera
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Categories: gladiolus, beauty, flower, girl,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberDecember Flowers

...Filled with Jesus-fascination
Pure poinsettia Plantation 
Red, pink, white, salmon and yellow
Cover the fields like a rainbow...! 

Sweet-peas like little butterflies,
Cute cosmic angels in dis...
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Categories: gladiolus, christmas, december, flower, nature,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberIs It Autumn

...Is it autumn, when silence has come to a lonely lakeshore?
Throngs of reveling summer tourists are flocking here no more.

Is it autumn, the water's sitting still in the swimming pool?
The rowdy ...
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Categories: gladiolus, autumn, change, farm, garden,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberMorning Sun

...the gladiolus 
standing tall half in half out
of warm morning sun~
the sudden ruby flashing 
from a hummingbird's small throat...
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Categories: gladiolus, nature,
Form: Tanka

Premium MemberFlowers For All Seasons

...Flowers affirm my constant love for you.
Sweetheart, prepare to receive these
from January to December:
carnation, violets
daffodils, daisies
hawthorns, roses
buttercups, gladiolus
ast...
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Categories: gladiolus, appreciation, character, christian, flower,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFlowers of His Thought

...He came to me and gently brought,
the fairest flowers of His thought.

Joy arrived with euphoric mums,
softly as the hummingbird hums.

Purity blown from baby’s breath,
ever innocent until dea...
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Categories: gladiolus, butterfly, flower, god, mum,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberGladiolus

...Florid elegance ablush
Nestled in gardens lush
Pigments triumph aplenty
Resilient verdant sentry

Colossal erectile shoots
Ingrain deep abyssal roots
Precious tis platinum spun
Abreast arisin...
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Categories: gladiolus, flower, garden,
Form: Rhyme

Gladiolus Tanka

...Spring gladiolus
Bloom by bloom they develop 
Dainty pink beauties
Stand proud before my garden
Guard me while I pause in bliss...
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Categories: gladiolus, flower, garden,
Form: Tanka

Premium MemberA Bee's Soliloquy

...I am a tiny winged buzzing insect
A friend to folks and flowers alike
Another name for hard work
Toiling untiring from dawn to dusk

I set out merry, humming a tune, 
On my professed mi...
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Categories: gladiolus, community, family, food, insect,
Form: Personification

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: gladiolus, dedication, remembrance day,
Form: Rhyme

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