summertime plantings
...lantanas a blast
like teeny fireworks ~
bucolic celebration
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Categories:
plantings, flower,
Form: Haiku
Summer Flowers
...
By the time it's officially Summer,
Without a doubt, they will be arresting me.
Presently, they are budding under the crape myrtle, which also will be stunning by summer.
Most assuredly, all o...
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Categories:
plantings, flower, flying, summer,
Form: Free verse
Sanctuary
..."The forest is a sanctuary where you can grow to be you," ... by the Poet.
The passing of a torch, when Spring was announced,
was noted in the melting quarter of winter memories, as a su...
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Categories:
plantings, animal, bird, creation, fish,
Form: Free verse
Sky Ghosts
...The drifts move their white weight
as if the heaps themselves
were snowplows.
Again the sky dumps afterthoughts,
the packed mounds are remodeled
under new wind-plantings.
When the land is a...
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Categories:
plantings, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Cost of a Human Life
...The Cost of a Human Life
I sat as an observer
in a state’s superior court.
First-degree murder was the charge.
Cold blooded calculated murder was the act.
One teen on a sleepover was beaten to...
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Categories:
plantings, judgement,
Form: Free verse
Ode Mind Presentations Mind Limitations
...ODE’ Mind Presentations Mind Limitations
by James Edward Lee Sr.
I
So am I here standing in mine presentence;
Promenaded engaging in mid-life stream
Never-ending yet moving in standin...
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Categories:
plantings, analogy, appreciation, environment,
Form: Ode
Native Trees In Autumn
...April and the streets are now
starting to be carpeted by leaves
shed by plantings of European
and North American trees.
Australian trees are evergreen
and drop their leaves all year round
no...
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Categories:
plantings, autumn, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Closing the War Room
...Dear wife when I leave my red-light-lit
war room behind me
can you tidy up my love.
Sorry about the mess,
I was a befuddled general,
I led far too many
into my own dark fears.
Can you put wa...
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Categories:
plantings, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Bleeding Hearts
...My plantings of bleeding hearts are finally in bloom
There's a hint of sweet scent in their delicate perfume
On multiple stems of fragile heart-shaped flowers
they are thriving in the ...
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Categories:
plantings, flower, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
At Last
...AT LAST
On my veranda I watch beads of sweat
slide down the glass of ale I use to get over
something I’m not sure of, perhaps just an
absence of idea or thought, a quiet discontent
that sp...
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Categories:
plantings, age, meaningful, tree,
Form: Free verse
The Gardener
...He counts roots and tendrils,
delves deep into his tillage,
some plantings have escaped
and he wonders to where?
He seeks for the once planted,
finds them, reveals again the beauty
even in th...
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Categories:
plantings, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Good Outlook
...I was once something of a pessimist, and that fact did not concern me,
As violet birds are content, to spend their nights in different trees.
Still I had a happy and quiet existence, or at least ...
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Categories:
plantings, dream, faith, fantasy, garden,
Form: Couplet
Plant What When
...Tiny seed with embryo in toe
awaits the sower to decipher
all it's wants and needs,
to grow captive, in plots and pots.
Nature knows the needs of seeds off by heart.
Growers learn the code of wh...
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Categories:
plantings, garden, nature, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Trailer Park Flood
...households lurch
creak unmoored
hulls rocking
the twang of whip lashed rigging
as electric wires stretch
pull up clods
yards of plantings
where once roots clutched
bricked-up aluminum...
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Categories:
plantings, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Vision At Dusk
...Evening sun dipping beneath yonder horizon
Casts surreal pirouetting hazy shadows across my face,
My mind wandering trancelike into an ethereal
Vision, esca...
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Categories:
plantings, dream, garden, heaven, sunset,
Form: Blank verse
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