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
Flames 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
Snapdragon
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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
Dress 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
- 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
December 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
Is 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
Morning 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
Flowers 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
Flowers 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
Gladiolus
...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
A 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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