Short Impatiens Poems

deer tracks
leading to chomped impatiens
gunshots in the woods...

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Relax, child, we have some wiggle room
    waiting for impatiens to bloom...

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forty degrees 
north icy winds flow across the land
impatiens freeze  ...

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The huge pot
Filled with summer's impatiens
Adorned by snowny white blossoms 
And delicate green leaves
Whipped by fall's hurricane

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I drank bottles
of potent optimism,
trampling impatiens 
in the garden bed.

In love's labyrinth
I stumbled in the hedges,
emerging to disengorge
in a plaster fountain
under a starless sky.

I awoke a sloth
in morning's garish chasm,
the silent telephone blooming
like a black orchid....

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gorgeous purple impatiens
deep rooted, holding up the river
revered by lily pads
honored by orange and white koi
I follow their lead and take a photo
of course it could never equal the real thing
the serene feelings of reverence of the landscape
they are three-dimensional goddesses if you ask me...

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In a fairy garden magic grows
amid creeping vines and velvet moss. 
Impatiens  red
Lobelia blue
Tiny houses peep out from leaves
where Spring bulbs sleep there deep beneath

At twilight -- sparks of light rise up
fairies of fireflys' ?
I 'll let  you guess 
the secret of my happiness.

...

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Blades whisper
as I walk the grass
Impatiens blush
Wisteria hides
behind lavender
dreadlocks 
As dawn peeks
above roof tops
a timid breeze
touches my cheek
and May's shy kiss
brushes
my silent lips

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Flower Bed

Once bold,
bright
yellow
now, fuzzy white.

Planted by chance of wind,
unlike the impatiens
flourishing in the shade.
Blow far away.

Swelter in the sun,
in fear of being spotted
lodged between rocks,
or in a crack of a driveway.

Perhaps, a child may mistake you
for a flower,
in his ignorance 
of youth.

While shedding petals,
always to be a rose.
Surely, a thorn to a dandelion,
removed from the garden of beauty....

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~All About Flowers~
(A Name acrostic poem)


African Violet 
Bamboo Orchid 
Cape primrose 
Daisies  
English Lavander  
Forget-me-nots 
Garden Mums 
Hollyhock 
Impatiens 
Jewelweed
Kalanchoe
Lenten rose, Hellebore
Mediterranean Pink Heather
Naranjilla
Orchids
Pansies
Roses
Siam tulips 
Tulips
Virginia bluebells 
White evening primrose
Yellow ironweed, Wingstem 
Zinnias



Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2012


December.15.2015...

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