Short Gladiola Poems

lacy ruffled gladiola with your dainty ways
made of a gorgeous pleated crepe, you take my breath away
describing you would be a win,
where to begin? Where to begin?...

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Pep Guardiola
they will wreathe a garland of Catalan cut gladiola
for that pretentious Olympian brow
but that horrid tie and collar - that's just not Arsenal somehow....

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My poem in me like gladiola bulbs
Lie dormant winter long
Day after day, night after night
The clouds like crystal powder fell
I waited until the gloom was gone
For sometimes all we can do is wait
And out from the ground a richer song
Beautified my garden with its bloom...

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Pink gladiola fleet entered the Dutch canal at two o’three.
One of the pirates said “Whoopdee dee dee”
What’s on board? Asked a first mate named Prix.
Not sure, he said, but it might be pretty girls, for free.

His wife heard and decided to make an example of him.
She took him by the ears, and she shook him by his chin.
The women from the gladiola fleet cheered for his wife.
“Served you right!” Yelled one of them, enjoying his strife....

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carefree wild roses
lovely cosmos
dignified watsonia
grandiose gladiola
noble daylily
fabulous oriental poppy
towering hollyhock
earthy vibrant geranium
apple blossom yarrow
exuberant anemone
classy fuchsia
clustered allium
sumptuous foxglove
opulent peony
audacious petunia
vibrant dahlia
splendid phlox
aromatic sweet pea
regal bleeding heart
unbridled garden of eden
for hummingbirds
bees and butterflies



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on February 18, 2019...

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