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Rhododendrons Poems - Poems about Rhododendrons

A poetic proposal

...A poetic proposal?

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Along a paisley highway
where the rhododendrons live
Upon a curb she waited,
she had something left to give
Her eyes were like an ocean 
and you should have seen...
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Categories: rhododendrons, fun,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSunlit Whispers in my Garden

...Golden sunlight, soft and bright,
Filters gently, warm with light.
Through the branches, high and low,
Warming all the earth below.

Azaleas blush in pink and red,
Geraniums lift each vibrant h...
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Categories: rhododendrons, flower, garden, happiness, nature,
Form: Rhyme



rhododendrons

...Ah, the rhododendrons, dear and bright,
Look at them for a moment, three seconds,
Seek them in the streets, in silence,
Explore the small multicolored gardens,
They are pink, purple, white, shiny...
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Categories: rhododendrons, 10th grade, beautiful, flower,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberJinxed

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He swallowed vanity whole,
spit up rhododendrons,
gasped at greasepaint fingerprints—
his own—
finally saw himself:
Clown....
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Categories: rhododendrons, integrity, language,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberThe Seasons of Life

...The winter snow and freeze killed everything 
I planted in the spring,
Rhododendrons, roses, Hawaii hibiscus
And the bougainvillea orange king.

Parsley, sage and thyme are gone, 
Peony and pan...
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Categories: rhododendrons, metaphor, seasons,
Form: Rhyme



In bliss I bloom in wild

...Nigh sultry and warm as was month of June,
The mist with wafting wind played hide and seek,
You, beds of Rhododendrons joined in soon,
All ruby red, filled with fragrance at peak,
To intoxicate a...
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Categories: rhododendrons, flower, rose,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberWanting

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Oh, oh! 	pity party
I want          my old house back
I want it summer
	windows open    curtains    fluttering
                   in the ocean breeze

I want my carpet		sofa	     chairs
		de...
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Categories: rhododendrons, emotions, introspection, memory, summer,
Form: Free verse

Flowers

...Forsythia my friend, I still cannot not discern, 
does a fiddlehead unravel into a lacy fern?

Lilly pads, flowered floating seats for fortunate frogs.
Monet’s favorite plant at his Giverny bog. ...
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Categories: rhododendrons, flower,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberSpring Sonata

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                Shimmering Sun shining soft
                   closing chilled frosty shivering term.
                 Nature's festival of renewal energy in serene beauty
                  on...
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Categories: rhododendrons, appreciation, spring,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Pilgrimage

...seagulls surf the wind
my escorts home
across the waves

                  streamlined gannets
                   sacred isle in view 
                      saffron tints

ocean flower breeze...
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Categories: rhododendrons, mountains, ocean, peace, sea,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFragrant Families

...I was a skillful, amiable nursery worker, cultivating blooms in a greenhouse,
Like feverish and fragrant blooms, often grown in redbird's green treehouse.

Hours were spent sowing seeds, adjusting...
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Categories: rhododendrons, beauty, dream, fantasy, flower,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberRhododendrons

...In neat formations
rhododendrons guard
the half acre order
of our mountain block
and rush their unreal colour
into a landscape just emerging
from winter's cold.

They seem out of place
in th...
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Categories: rhododendrons, spring,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTaking a Fall Drive

...Drive at any season gives me immense fun,
I cannot afford many cars; yet, I've good one; 
Drive during Fall, indeed, is very enchanting,
Especially, if through village roads, it's joy-granting...
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Categories: rhododendrons, car, journey, life, nature,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFlowery Tributes

...A paradise of nature eloquent flowers bouquets sculpted by a spiral maze:
that has yellow, orange, pink, red roses with a rich redolent scent phase

Lilies, lilacs tulips, daisies, daffodils, butt...
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Categories: rhododendrons, flower, love, nature,
Form: Couplet

Easter Eggs and Tulips

...Easter Eggs and Tulips

Grandaddy was a quiet soul, 
born in 1888 on the first day of Spring.
He often stopped to graze his sheep, 
on the lush green grass 
found at my grandmother’s old house,...
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Categories: rhododendrons, easter,
Form: Free verse

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