Honey
Winter soars away
On wings of butterflies.
Poppies and phlox burst with glory
As bees pursue their pollen.
With honey found among the flowers
When first love burst into bloom.
Bite Size Poem no.47 Poetry Contest
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Categories:
phlox, butterfly, first love, flower,
Form: Free verse
A Pink Marble
a pink marble
rolling in sky
scent of phlox
in the garden
a croaking frog
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Categories:
phlox, appreciation, flower, nature, poems,
Form: Tanka
Phlox Uplift Garden
pretty fuchsia phlox
turning us into fairies
uplifting garden
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Categories:
phlox, flower, garden,
Form: Haiku
A Cat Named- Phlox
Sorry sweet cat,
just too little.
You were found in a cardboard box,
twined with your sister and brother;
taken too soon from your mother,
you tried to get out with loud knocks.
Twined with your sister and brother,
in a box taped shut just like locks;
someone heard sad meows by the rocks,
taken too soon from your mother.
Sorry sweet cat,
twined with your
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Categories:
phlox, abuse, cat, death,
Form: Ballad
Phlox By Night
Phlox by Night
God made wonderful world for us so great
But me about flowers He never did educate
If someone should have case of pneumonia
Would he soon be overcome by a begonia?
If you have experienced many hard knocks
Give them pretty petunias with some phlox
Which is what shepherds watched by night
While on bright beach we were flying a
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Categories:
phlox, religious,
Form: Couplet
Amid the Purple Phlox
I am losing you again
White, oh your skin, whiter than pearls…
I sit here, trying not to stare,
Serene you are, as you lie in your bed,
How awful could agony become?
I am losing you again
Chapped and faded your divinely drawn lips…
Opaque, the spark in your eyes, it no longer exists,
Uttering out the words, "you had my heart
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Categories:
phlox, angst, death, loss,
Form: Free verse