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Hollyhocks Poems - Poems about Hollyhocks


Premium Member Daisies Gladiolas and Hollyhocks
monarchs lead the petite butterflies daisies, gladiolas and hollyhocks smile two welcoming Adirondack chairs under yellow and orange umbrellas welcome my friend to my garden where foxglove and iris await...

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Categories: hollyhocks, flower, garden,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Marguerite
Tall red and pink-tipped spears reach for the nothing-at-all blue sky, all washed out with sunshine. The tight wrapped buds of the hollyhocks are too high for us to reach, but Imogen can. You and I wait for her to bring them down. Here behind the flowers, no one can see us. It’s hot. Your...

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Categories: hollyhocks, beautiful, childhood, family, flower,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Letting Go Aunt Minnie
I remember you in all your faces from the photograph of a young girl surprised at being looked at, and later, Sun brown and strong over the garden hoe or throwing your head up to one side around the nanny's rump to milk her. I remember your white face...

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Categories: hollyhocks, family, grandmother, old, paradise,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hollyhock Cottage
bright blooms surround it it has an old fashioned charm colorful cottage most folks stop to admire it on their journey through the day the road of beauty leads where the blooms are crowding in the still morning blue pink red yellow and black purple and cream-sunshine's dream...

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Categories: hollyhocks, beautiful, color, flower, garden,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Hollyhocks
Hollyhocks will bloom in their second year of growth reaching to the sky. ...

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Categories: hollyhocks, flower,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Hollyhocks
jolly hollyhocks obeying the April wind ~ twirling all about. Date written: 06/24/2020...

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Categories: hollyhocks, flower, imagery, nature, wind,
Form: Haiku
Hollyhocks
Mystical, And beautiful, Translucent swirls, Bursting hollyhocks of color, Fairies dance in her blooms Borrowing her ruffles as skirts, Dreams and fantasy awaken, Igniting and sparking, Imagination, Her remarkable growth, Edible and healing qualities, Standing tall, she guards, High along the fences, From her high position, She watches as her magical, Garden comes alive. And the evening party begins....

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Categories: hollyhocks, poetry,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Hollyhocks
Hollyhocks are among my favorite flowers. I am watching each season as those green towers ascend towards the vividly blue summer sky. Those slender stalks with the green spikes do climb quite high. The broad, rounded leaves capture the sun’s daytime rays. From the spikes, protrude bright flowers in a few days. The plant’s children emerge that are ephemeral. Red, purple, or...

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Categories: hollyhocks, seasons, green,
Form: Rhyme
Hollyhocks
it was a chorus line of hollyhocks against a crumbling red brick building that devastated my poem, they laid waste to the words you asked me to write, you said I would try to hurt you with my intent, my rhyme, I said your prejudice and ignorance were showing, like wearing a hooded down overcoat near the end of June you said...

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Categories: hollyhocks, allegory, inspirational, introspection, nostalgia,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things