Flower Mountains Poems

It was hefted upon a breeze -
   As in a warm, flowing current
Through a sea of palo verdes -
   To search...

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The sunlight streams through the windowpane
Casting a rainbow around my newborn
In her bassinet as she sleeps. 
Brightening my world with flickering magic.
Her silky blonde curls...

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Nicky, the neighbor’s dog, drags a road kill home.
A beautiful pelt like those fox shoulder garments women wore in the
      forties.
But the head is crushed beyond...

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When a plaintive refrain 
Is heard in the mountains
And palsy paints the rocks
There are always nature’s 
Scattered notes of sympathy
Like a bed of snowdrops
Spilling into...

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seagulls surf the wind
my escorts home
across the waves

                 ...

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Summertimes sunshine, melts alpines snowline ~  waters ice cold, crystalline.

              ...

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I gaze at a saffron sunset
as a tawny owl sails overhead,
while yellow sunflowers feel threat
until evening prayers are said.

The flaxen fields and amber plains
reflect the...

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plush carpet of blooms
hues at the base of mountains ~
fragrance of footsteps

Written on 4/3/2023...

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There is a meadow that seems to spring
      from beyond trees
         ...

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Inspired by seven of the most beautiful people in my life.

I would climb seven mountains,
Cross seven seas,
All for want of seven dream,
Just to be with...

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Spring 
rainy, cool 
awaking, flowering, singing 
yards, mountains, sea, sand 
swimming, picnicking, sunning 
hot, fun 
summer 
 

 
Date Written 1/12/2023...

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summer sojourn 

summer strolls the hills
 green aspen leaves fluttering ~
  wildflowers run wild

edelweiss wear white
 high altitude’s sunflower ~
  a wink and...

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The wind carries my song
From my lips to the corners of the earth,
And the flowers in gladness bloom, 
The trees stand a little taller,
And the...

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I marvel at marigolds 
as I’ve never seen mountains
I watch in wonder the water 
flowing from fountains
yearning to learn 
what it is to be cared...

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Blazing wild meadows,
Cherry blossoms, budding green,
Cascades of flowers!
Spring in the Blue Ridge Mountains
is a gilt orange season.


Written on: 3/6/2022
For: Springtime Beauty Tanka Poetry 
Contest
Sponsor: M....

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