Deconstructing July
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Quintilis
Julis Caesar
Dog days
Ruby
Larkspur
Water lily
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Categories:
larkspur, july, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Picking 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
Field 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
Maud
...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
s...
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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
Lake 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
larks 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
Bloom 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
b...
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Categories:
larkspur, death, flower, nature, power,
Form: Footle
Early 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
The 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
The 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
The 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
Seven 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
Children 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.
Wh...
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Categories:
larkspur, flower, garden, summer,
Form: Rhyme
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