Short Herbaceous Poems

moony night fishing
summer breeze herbs aroma
herbaceous evening...

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Verbacious Herbaceious Plant

What if you had been
Veracious herbaceous plant;
Would eat it all up.

Jim Horn...

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pink herbaceous plant
draws butterfly like magnet
hemp agrimony



Date written: 07/09/2020...

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efflorescence joy
rampage of blossoms and blooms
nature captivates

herbaceous border
singular walk of beauty
flamboyance relished

summer symphony
insects express happiness
flawless cyclic song




pixabay image: lucianapappdesign...

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Colourful garden
Herbaceous border delights
Flowers ripple, breeze
Fluttering beautiful flash
Settled on Buddleia.

Soft gentle rainfall
Shelter taken under leaf
Out of human sight
Herbaceous perfume pervades
Solitary walk....

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          Driving carefree through the herbaceous desert, Ruby and I
          Off to meet up with family and friends this Fourth of July
          Word games banter, years renewed, time gently drifts away
          A sweet time sweeps by on this rehabituating Independence Day...

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Is there something about grass 
Close-clipped
On lawns and playing fields
That’s blithely overlooked?

Its qualities seem simply put:
Offsetting herbaceous borders 
And yielding underfoot.

Or is every blade like everyone 
Quite different from up-close
Unique and undervalued 
Unsung and lachrymose?

SW, 2019...

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Florida’s views ever so spacious
Trees dropping flowers, so audacious
Covering paths, looking vivacious
Tip toe carefully, ever gracious
Cavorting ducks, feeling flirtatious
Breeding instincts, ever tenacious
Nests of flowers, softly herbaceous
Alligators glide hugely predaceous
Rolling fish always voracious
Fishermen’s lures completely fallacious...

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Listen to poem:

An herbaceous arbor
flanks the harbor
where he labors
fitting words to spaces -- 
blanks he fills, erases.

He savors bits of meaning, 
sculpting sound to logic's shape, 
annealing word and image, 
polishing a verbal mound
congealing on his pad. 

A bird chirps.
Song distracts. 
A moment's lapse.

He compares the bird's 
with his own work,
considers form and content, 
sees the gaps,
tosses his dead page 
into the water's murk....

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This astronomical event
Molted out of summer sunbeams
Causes an herbaceous retreat
Personified as sleepiness

More darkness less lightness describes
This astronomical event
More coldness less heatness results
From shorter indirect sunbeams

Tilting revolving rotating
Earth goes around again until
This astronomical event
Reassuringly reoccurs

Earthly inhabitants rejoice
Variously and celebrate
The season attributed to 
This astronomical event...

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grieving sad loss of summer
it is time of greatest joy
when old bones no longer ache
and eyes are blessed with colour

to smell crisp newly mown grass
after warm summer shower
herbaceous border delights
hollyhocks reached perfection

midnight, smell the torpid air
wisteria in moonlight
salamander on old walls
nightlight with aura sheds glow

drinking strong morning coffee
wide eyes take in this beauty
never to be forgotten
image held close to my heart...

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