Flower Language Poems

The language of love is wordless.

See that simple yellow and white daisy
in the green meadow?
Go uproot it,
snatch it from its perfect setting
that place Perfection made...

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Flobodobba-dob? asked Bill of Ben
Dobba-flob? Ben asked Bill to repeat again
Ah!! Dobba-flobbing flobadom Bill confirmed with linguistic skill
Flobbing dobba-do dob do Ben wrote down with...

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I have never seen an ugly flower
Flowers are always full of grandeur
Flowers are known to be beautiful
All the time, that's stupendously wonderful
All flowers speak a...

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Each language has it’s own beauty…
perhaps that’s why people travel the world seek them…
I imagine, just like me, 
they would someday like to speak them…

But...

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Iris flower
I sharpened 
a sickle to deep blue

   by Ikuma Wadachi


Japnese:

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       ? ??...

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"Each flower, leaf, and blade of sod— 
small letters sent to her from God." *

Saying: Look how beautiful I Am! --
My Beauty shines through even...

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Translations of the Oldest English Rhyming Poems

The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem aka The Riming Poem
Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990...

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Snake’s head, pitcher plant, Lady’s slipper orchid, and the corpse flower
Four of the strangest flowers, but not the contender for queen of the rare.
That honor...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Flowers have a language they share with all the trees.
Sometimes you can hear their voices carried on the breeze

Flowers speak from on the ground…
trees from...

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The Goldfish Bowl


Once injected with water, sorrow becomes colorless and tasteless
Inside the glass bowl, all lives
only live seven seconds

The same route, again and again --
The...

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I
come all through
year

before the
dawn
sun rising

this is path
for the remembrance
with flowers

they all died for us,
mother tongue
for country peoples

I'm independent
today none can force to speak
in another tongue

this...

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As if 'twere written in granite,
Stands the No.  The No, No, No.
Despite controversy it may incite-
Imperious No.  The No, No, No.

Often said and...

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THEY STRUGGLED TO UNDERSTAND
THEYGO UPWARDS TO WHAT
THEY MIGHT KNOW
THEY STRUGGLE TO UNDERSTAND
AND STAND ON THE THINGS THEY ALREADY KNOW THE NEED IS TEMPERED BY KNOWLEDGE
INSTANCE...

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What king forsakes the ruling of his heart
To bow before a queen of cruel sting
Who takes but six sharp bites and then departs
When west wind...

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