Horticultural Incest
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Horticulture? truly awesome!
Granddaddy’s timeless illusion -
one giant synthetic blossom
swirling midst rustic seclusion.
Fascinated by back-crossing,
Pop expe...
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Categories:
rockery, 11th grade, flower, mental
Form: Quatrain
My Blossoms
...When the season of splendor sprinkles
the scent of sprightliness,
when the koels and kingfishers sing hymns of hope
and merrily waltz their wings of chartreuse dreams, and
when from her day dre...
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Categories:
rockery, hope, muse, spring,
Form: Free verse
Andrea Dietrich
...My humble tribute to our dear poetess of Soup, Andrea Dietrich as she will be celebrating her birthday on September 5. I am posting this poem earlier, so that she gets more wishes on her birthday an...
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Categories:
rockery, birthday, tribute,
Form: Acrostic
Garden Tale
...gardens are where we are:
from "Eden" to "Gilgamesh", "Babylon" to "Gethsemane"
from mountain to coast, town to country
from wetlands to desert oasis, under the sea to the edge of ice
f...
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Categories:
rockery, garden, places, space,
Form: Free verse
Garden Poetry
...Ten years ago I was bereft.
My garden began when you left.
Literally on my hands and knees,
clearing paths among surrounding trees.
Uncovered were the root of one tree,
winding it's way around...
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Categories:
rockery, celebration, garden, growth,
Form: Rhyme
A Cry In the Night
...Your voice kisses the breath of the morning wind
Snapping in the solemnity that bears a cry unto God.
Angels have come to earth; that in slumber seemed,
Like the wind creaking among the faith we o...
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Categories:
rockery, anxiety, dark, death, evil,
Form: Free verse
Pruning the Roses
...PRUNING THE ROSES
Prune Roses here, Prune Roses there,
Dancing in my garden,
With Sweet William and Fred Astaire.
Wallflower there, Gardenia over here,
My Fuchsia’s looking bright,
I’m goin...
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Categories:
rockery, appreciation, flower, garden, retirement,
Form: Rhyme
Springtime Meadow
...Hark the skylark sings o'er meadow.
Sings or fights to let rivals know;
the robin claiming territory.
Sings his claim, his sincerity.
A blackbird cock sings his claim so.
The rooks in yonder ...
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Categories:
rockery, nature,
Form: Rondeau
Bird Fly Watching
...Birds to watch r' alotta fun
In the garden while they play
Alongside weeds and shrubs overrun
They flock to the open outdoor spray
Which cools them off when they come
To scrabble and sachet fo...
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Categories:
rockery, bird,
Form: Free verse
New Creativity
...Lay to rest the spiritless low spirit
In the catacomb of 'Auld Lang Syne'
Cultivate the rockery of life with
The beautiful seeds of blessed wisdom shine
That will awaken the growth that thou ha...
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Categories:
rockery, wisdom,
Form: Sonnet
''Flying Gems''
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I am standing in my garden amongst the beautiful flowers,
when a kaleidoscope of butterflies comes silently drifting.
Past my lovely primrose rockery, so bright and brilliant,
they...
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Categories:
rockery, butterfly, garden,
Form: Couplet
Spring Flowers
...Floriography
Allamanda in April slowly open its trumpets around posts that look like
Buttercups of honey for bees to dive in to replenish their striped bellies
Crocus's yellow stigmas that flav...
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Categories:
rockery, allusion, flower, spring,
Form: Free verse
Ah, Spring
...Ah, Spring my soul you do delight
and smells of the fresh greenery
with the tranquil sounds of the night.
No more does winter's cold us bite
making folks tug scarfs and scurry
Ah, Spring my so...
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Categories:
rockery, life, night, spring,
Form: Villanelle
Adventures of Robin Hood and His Merry Men
...Adventures of Robin Hood and his Merry Men.
No1.
Robin’s Thick Member
We wuz out huntin that day
Ah remembers as plain as can be
When a ansome buck came us way
Fust to sho...
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Categories:
rockery, adventure, animal, humorous,
Form: Quatrain
Passion
...I have another passion apart from poetry.
It's my garden, left by the gardener.
In a state of wilderness.
Two years later, with tools in hand.
I've made it into a wonderland.
Take my tea out eac...
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Categories:
rockery, garden,
Form: Rhyme
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