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Larkspur Poems - Poems about Larkspur

Premium MemberDeconstructing July

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Quintilis
Julis Caesar
Dog days
Ruby
Larkspur
Water lily
Cancer>>Leo

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Categories: larkspur, july, surreal,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPicking At Scabs

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Written April 11, 2025, for Contest Sponsored by Edward Ibeh

Quote: 1/ “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ? Rumi

           2/ "Many times we pick at the bitt...
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Categories: larkspur, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberField of Forgiveness

...Come to the field of forgiveness
when you are feeling low.
If negativity nags at you,
you need to let it all go.

Let go of your bitterness.
Bluebells will beckon to you.
These meadow empaths ...
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Categories: larkspur, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMaud

...Torn skirt billowing behind you
like a parachute,
you fell,
           fell,
for the telescoped eternity
of two seconds.

The pond turned its blind eye
to the sky,
and the shuddering gate
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Categories: larkspur, murder, violence,
Form: Free verse

Sappho Translations VI

...Sappho Translations by VI Michael R. Burch

Sappho, fragment 121
translation by Michael R. Burch

1.
As a friend you're great,
but you need a much younger bedmate.

2.
Although you're very ...
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Categories: larkspur, best friend, death, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberLake Side Birch Trees

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   I could look at this painting
      forever, oh Klimt was a talent
lake side with birch trees is where I would like to be
      beside the dappled blue still water . . . 
         pickin...
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Categories: larkspur, art,
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium Memberlarks hiku

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larks soar autumn's sky

as sun follows prairie rain . . .

wild larkspur sparkles


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Categories: larkspur, summer,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberBloom Doom

...hemlock
a shock

foxglove
no love

orchid
morbid

wolf’s bane
insane

larkspur
bad blur

glory
gory

sumac
step back

laurel
quarrel

bloodroot
a brute

jimson
no fun

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Categories: larkspur, death, flower, nature, power,
Form: Footle

Premium MemberEarly Summer In the Meadow

...Taking my first summer stroll in the meadow,
I marveled at the new growth and flowers
The sun was shining full blast, not a single shadow
My mind rummaged through its ivory towers.
Wi...
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Categories: larkspur, beauty, betrayal, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Perfect Place

...Soon spring wildflowers will appear
Red Larkspur in the meadow near,
And sweet honeysuckle blooming
With birch twigs ready for brooming
All to the stroller bring good cheer.

Stroll...
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Categories: larkspur, flower, nature, spring,
Form: Quintilla

Premium MemberThe Meadow Is Greening

...The meadow is greening, a little each day
Buds are beginning to swell with anticipation,
Small, furry creatures are appearing to play
The meadow is greening, a little each day.
Soon t...
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Categories: larkspur, nature, spring,
Form: Triolet

Premium MemberThe Month of July

...The Month of July

Under the shade of willow boughs, dipping low,
Beside the lily pond where lovely larkspur grow.
My love and I recline in the midday of summer,
In the month of July when...
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Categories: larkspur, july, love, romance, summer,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberSeven Secret Garden Secrets

...Coming To The Garden

Long-lost secrets at Misselthwaite Manor.
Mistress Mary moves from self-centeredness to
self-awareness, leading to self-healing.
This tale's secret seems simple but not so....
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Categories: larkspur, allegory, children, garden, health,
Form: Free verse

Morning Glory

...As dawn undressed the night,
putting the purples of sorrow to flight.
It started to paint an horizon new,
in burnished golds of every hue,
that streaked the heavens and edged each cloud
with fir...
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Categories: larkspur, celebration, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberChildren of the Midsummer Garden

...CHILDREN OF THE MIDSUMMER GARDEN

Dreamy midsummer comes to the garden
 Leaving her perfume so intoxicating
Colors float up – bounce like a fountain
 Autumn comes soon – a lady-in-waiting.

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Categories: larkspur, flower, garden, summer,
Form: Rhyme

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