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Horticulturist Poems

It Grew On Me

...I was a fashionable horticulturist, for elegant flowers keep eternally in style,
Like the saffron sun, coming and going, always causing dark skies to smile.

Plants were a jade preoccupation, long...

Categories: horticulturist, appreciation, beautiful, career, color,
Form: Couplet

So Many Choices

...Of all the things that I could be
     I think I'll not select  
        'Horticulturist'

  'Cos life for me's been too much at sea
     I see myself strictly as an
        'Ostreiculturist'...

Categories: horticulturist, career, destiny, future, hyperbole,
Form: Rhyme

Letter To My Father

...*LETTER TO MY FATHER*

 
Dearest Father
With heart ripped into rags and shreds I write ? to you tonight
Trembling hands and ink made of tears and blood
Teary ?? eyes and bloody heels like a def...

Categories: horticulturist, betrayal, depression, emotions, fairy,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Ekphrasis On Monet's Water Lilies

...Floating fluttering fleurs
are jewels in fuchsia and magenta
transmuting into taffy hue
with the kiss of dappled sunlight
like her cheeks that blush in pink
with his wondering wink.

The willo...

Categories: horticulturist, appreciation, art, nature,
Form: Ekphrasis

Watering the Flowers

...splashing. sunshine.

etched glasses with paint in mind -
water goo.

rose reds and blueberry blues.

as if handling a ginormous flatscreen,
the canvas placed.

splash...splash...splash
li...

Categories: horticulturist, art,
Form: Free verse

The Gardner

...-The Tree of Life- 

Featuring: Casarah Nance
 ~~I am beautiful on the inside you will see~~
   ~But really I am scarcely a tree in the woods.~
  
Beauty found a tree that sits and does not utt...

Categories: horticulturist, anti bullying, beauty, crazy,
Form: Alliteration

Beware of Dogs

...His daughter was getting married
So the Hon. Minister’s gate was thrown open
For just that day.
And like flies to a carcass,
The people thronged in
To see, to hail, to help with cooking, 
And to goss...

Categories: horticulturist, patriotic, political, social,
Form: Blank verse

Careers

...I wondered what I’d do If I had chosen a career
Would it have been based on challenge or overcoming fear
I could have been an electrician
Working with plugs and wires and sprockets
Or maybe even ...

Categories: horticulturist, imagination
Form: Rhyme