Bones
...In winter
The forest becomes invisible
This
Is
When the wood can be touched
Such
Tall
And toppled tenderness
Will not flinch
Beyond
Looking through
The centuries exposed
Forest fl...
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Categories:
perennials, age, courage, nature, seasons,
Form: Free verse
I Need Plant Therapy
...I need plant therapy
begin planting mid May
annuals are brighter and prettier
but I usually plant perennials
because they reappear each year
the red geraniums are nodding to me
a gorgeous hydra...
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Categories:
perennials, garden,
Form: Free verse
Margaret
...Margaret
Count your blessings every day
Take your baby steps every day
There is no need to walk fast
Also you not alone
Our father are watching out for you
We are all children of God
Soon will...
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Categories:
perennials, inspiration,
Form: Verse
A POETs CRUSH IS FICKLE
...Happened upon black-eyed Susans,
so bright and beautiful. I stopped
and looked, snapped
a picture with my cell, drew back
breath and sighed; eyed
with appreciation, didn’t matter
where I found ...
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Categories:
perennials, beauty, books, flower, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Millennials Trend
...Today's millennials
Life can't live without iced tea
Real trend perennials....
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Categories:
perennials, culture, fashion, life, truth,
Form: Haiku
Spring Morning
...The early morning sunrise displayed in vibrant pinks and reds
kissing the newly sprouted perennials in garden flower beds
Sparkling the dew drops on the fresh kelly-green grass
As Robins run and j...
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Categories:
perennials, bird, nature, spring,
Form: Rhyme
The Dangling Decameron
...Some kind of Boccaccio
they open The Book,
borrowing thoughts
and stories from muses,
for it is a tome
in its entirety,
each muse, a Page, unamused,
to be plucked from tomb,
those sepia...
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Categories:
perennials, i am, muse, poets,
Form: Free verse
ALL FLOWERS
...All flowers all the time:
Another day for admirers hungry eyes
Bouquet to deliver in the
Company of love
Dainty daisies beautifully alive
Especially the rose
For the lover in you
Guess I d...
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Categories:
perennials, beautiful, birth, flower, rose,
Form: Abecedarian
November
...
fall
rust shades
leaves dapple
cool playful ground
perennials bloom
festivities
shorter days
long nights
fall
11/7/2023...
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Categories:
perennials, nature,
Form: Ninette
April Cannot Live Without January
...A fierce and angry snow storm swarms around me.
I trudge to the house, my feet pink in my cold wet socks.
There are frosty icicles on my scarf, it is cold out here.
January has shown us her streng...
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Categories:
perennials, seasons,
Form: Blank verse
Garden Tercets
...A backyard garden
planted with flowering perennials
so as not to seem deliberate
the green stalks swell
with anticipation
awaiting the creaking gate
of summer to open up
letting in, with ...
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Categories:
perennials, nature,
Form: Tercet
Haven
...My haven is my special place to relax and unwind
Where the fragrant geraniums and begonias are divine
Blooms in colors of pinks, purples, oranges and reds
Petunias in pots and perennials in a ston...
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Categories:
perennials, appreciation, beautiful, bird, flower,
Form: Rhyme
Goddesses of the Four Seasons
...Winter is a bitter goddess, freezing cold, but also blue and white dazzling.
She sparkles with a glitziness that rivals a virgin’s wedding gown.
Spring refreshes, revitalizes, rejuvenates the grass...
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Categories:
perennials, seasons,
Form: Personification
Winter
...So, what does Nature
and Her Winter suggest?
that death is but a sleep
before a refreshing showery
sunny new awakening
that each resting kernel of being
is a blossom again to come forth
pe...
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Categories:
perennials, birth, christian, creation, inspirational,
Form: Prose Poetry
Notes and Seeds
...I was in the garden today,
had done some weeding
thinking, if only my favorite
blossoms would have such will
all their own, drive to overcome
with less my fawning attention
I thought of my ...
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Categories:
perennials, humorous, inspirational, introspection, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
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