Wishing Well
...Stella Williams was eight years old, living with her widowed mother-
Happily, though a bit lonely, like powder blue skies, sans sunset color.
The Williams lived in a rural area, with no c...
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Categories:
hostas, family, fantasy, friend, love,
Form: Couplet
Pretending To Miss Everything
...a gorgeous Eiffel tower is in the background of Peachtree Boulevard
We know it is not THE Eiffel tower, but it is amazing to see anyway
Atlanta Georgia has a flair all her own, her desserts are leg...
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Categories:
hostas, writing,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Days Come Warmer
...The Days Come, Warmer
Time has ammassed the many aspects of me,
Which I then collect, design and tatt
Into delicate lace edgings for my aging, and which I then
Lay out into rings around the b...
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Categories:
hostas, blessing, celebration, flower, life,
Form: Free verse
My Love Awaits
...That is the path I've chosen,
covered with soft blades of grass
hedged with variegated hostas,
and moonlight filtering
through hanging willow trees.
The winding path tilts slightly uphill,
tow...
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Categories:
hostas, love,
Form: Free verse
2035 the End - Cop26 I
...The old fashioned monsoons
Meant for the flowers and cacti of Arizona California
And New Mexico
Have fled those deserts and dusty reservoirs
To find a new friend instead in Michigan
Up here in...
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Categories:
hostas, death, earth, environment, future,
Form: Free verse
Garden Surprise Dk
...My circular corner garden
Is a somewhat crowded scene.
With hostas all around the edge
And day lilies in between.
But within the flowery circle
The grass is growing tall.
I’ve tried, but ther...
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Categories:
hostas, garden, humor,
Form: Rhyme
In Her Garden
...She removed the drops of perspiration from her forehead with the back of her garden glove, leaving nature’s makeup in its place, a small streak of brown soil. As I stared at her, she put her hand abo...
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Categories:
hostas, beauty, devotion, flower, heaven,
Form: Prose Poetry
My Little Garden
...I wander the garden path that winds
among the colorful crepe myrtle trees
Its lined with ferns, hostas and flowering
coralbells eagerly sought by honey bees
Hidden within the lush greenery and ...
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Categories:
hostas, garden,
Form: Rhyme
From My Front Porch
...Porches,
attached decks,
patios,
intimate places for alfresco,
These make a difference
between a fortressed house
and a transparent home,
between an ego castle
and an eco-habitat.
We als...
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Categories:
hostas, games, health, history, home,
Form: Political Verse
One Hundred Thirty-Six Pretty Petals
...Inside twinkling eyes of nights bloom
Garden flowers whisper
Peeking through tree branches, heads nod
Vines twine graceful arbor crown
Rows covered with p...
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Categories:
hostas, flower, garden, summer,
Form: Free verse
Nature's Green Dress
...Nature's green dress sprawls lofty upon the earth,
bursting forth with life abiding foliage,
photosynthesizing perpetual birth
that carries a carpet of created knowledge.
Ivy hems climb to the ...
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Categories:
hostas, birth, blessing, clothes, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Flower Gardening
...~
gentle white daisies
waving petals toward sun
beckon birds to flight
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bright purple pansies
celebrate the warm season
with radiant smiles
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naïve pink roses
hasten to open petals...
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Categories:
hostas, appreciation, butterfly, flower, garden,
Form: Haiku
One Hundred Thirty-Six Pretty Petals
...Inside twinkling eyes of nights bloom
Garden flowers whisper
Peeking through tree branches, heads nod
Vines twine graceful arbor crown
Rows covered with p...
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Categories:
hostas, flower, garden, june, night,
Form: Free verse
Compendium of Spaces
...spaces-SEPTEMBER I
empty slides in the park
chatter fills the school bus
spaces- SNUFFED OUT
Bad light stops play
The muscians retire
Note: Haydn's Farewell Symphony
spac...
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Categories:
hostas, imagery, imagination,
Form: Imagism
Planting Perennials With a Purpose
...There is a certain comfort that comes to me
every spring, from perennials I planted years ago, that still pop up, beneath dark soil.
I often wonder how in the world they survived the harshness...
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Categories:
hostas, growing up, journey, lost
Form: Free verse
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