Chasing butterflies
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She chased a pretty butterfly,
the field a minty green
With Salvia and Baby's Breath,
a watercolor scene
As fast as her two feet could run,
she touched its silken wing,
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Categories:
salvia, butterfly,
Form: Rhyme
Summertime Karaoke
...Norah Lynn was ten years old, and dreamed of being a ballet dancer;
Like cherry blossoms, fluttering in breeze, whispering with no answer.
She lived with her parents and sister, Phoebe, i...
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Categories:
salvia, beauty, birthday, dance, friendship
Form: Couplet
Dog Days of Summer
...Alice Hubbard's home was not ever cluttered, like azure roses, in rows.
Full of sun, the panes were never shuttered, typical where love grows.
Alice was fondly called, 'Old Mother Hubbard...
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Categories:
salvia, color, dog, fantasy, food,
Form: Couplet
Salvia
...Salvia sagebrush
So excellent pleasant herb
So good to stomach...
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Categories:
salvia, adventure,
Form: Senryu
Book of Fiction
...Trying to overcome the enemy
Society calls celebrity
Feeding on social media
Regurgitating stupidity & salvia
Driving off the cliff of existentialism
Crashing head first into television
Starr...
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Categories:
salvia, books, change, poetry, ,
Form: Rhyme
Metric Meteology
...An absorbent allotment. And a pile of interestingly aligned vegetables is merely a soup pot in a ground. Garden then. Wow. Swooshing a washing basket. Swapping sunglasses for a basin bomb. And sausag...
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Categories:
salvia, arabic, art, assonance, best
Form: I do not know?
Humming
...melodic buzzing
weave purple salvia bliss:
transparent wings fly...
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Categories:
salvia, nature,
Form: Haiku
Stokey 2014
...Stokey 2014
I am working the door
At an all night bar
Sometimes I think I have spent too much time alone. These long nights remind me of flowers and effigies. I drink too much. There’s a t...
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Categories:
salvia, addiction, allusion, anxiety,
Form: Narrative
Z Is For Zaria
...A-Z Latin and Common names of plants.
A is for Acanthus Mollis the Latin name but this does teach us
B is for the common name we know it as bears Breaches.
C is for Campanula some are short and som...
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Categories:
salvia, nature, tree, beauty, flower,
Form: ABC
Garden Reality
...Chewed stalks brown corn
Skeleton dead heads of sunflowers
rotten tomatoes and watermelons
fruitless vines and weeds waist high
Purple salvia blooms shine
Orange Marigolds
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Categories:
salvia, funny, nature,
Form: Free verse
A Dream After the Demise
...Man becomes a bee
assaulting a rosebud.
Death, do not punish for unlived years
when Budha was sitting inside me.
At center stage a dance begins
wading through salvia and absinthes.
The soil craves f...
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Categories:
salvia, art,
Form: ABC
Sweet Salvia
...Sweet scent salvia
Singing for the Humming Birds
Pierce the densest smog...
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Categories:
salvia, nature
Form: Haiku
Sage
.... . . thoughts of the high desert, Oregon, 1971
Sage is a member of the Salvia family . . .
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Sage
is the aromatic Salvia
the high desert bloom
the scent of inland Oregon
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Categories:
salvia, time
Form: Free verse
Furled Flowers
...The red salvia colors our lawn,
Later their flags are withdrawn
As the winter arrives and destroys
Innocent, red-flower joys....
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Categories:
salvia, nature
Form: Quatrain
A Dream After the Demise
...Man becomes a bee
assaulting a rosebud.
Death, do not punish for unlived years
when Budha was sitting inside me.
At center stage a dance begins
wading through salvia and absinthes.
The soil c...
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Categories:
salvia, adventure, allegory, angst, animals,
Form: I do not know?
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