who told my tree it was April?
...An old neem tree
sentinel stands
in my frontyard
fresh healing air
green sunlit shade
bitter year-round
Pinnate gloss leaves
inflor...
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Categories:
inflorescences, nature,
Form: Verse
Girls Are Roses
...In a shadowy sphere
a girl flaunt her beautiful faces
to the pallid look of the sun
- rolling blackout.
A sweet reminder of her refulgency
waxing from waning.
Girls are roses
Purple roses...
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Categories:
inflorescences, bridal shower, celebration, romance,
Form: Free verse
Haiku On Fatal
...all buds are falling
from the inflorescences
fatal desire...
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Categories:
inflorescences, loss,
Form: Haiku
Dusk On Cortaderia Jubata
...Andean Pampas Grass grows in California.
Its Linnaean binomial is Cortaderia jubata.
This noxious weed disperses far and wide.
With tall stalks and inflorescences, it has nothing to hide.
As an o...
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Categories:
inflorescences, places
Form: Rhyme
Four Seasons
...So soon the seasons
in cycle.
The chill of winter’s
tangible breath to scorch
the freezing air,
the paperboy’s virgin
footprints etched within
each dawn breaking frost.
The solidarity of summ...
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Categories:
inflorescences, nature,
Form: Free verse