Snapdragons
Snapdragons (edit)
One is a serpent on the wing, the other a butterfly.
Each belongs to species created from
tissue paper, water, and light.
When half-awake I can hear the droning
of their nocturnal flights,
amber engines rattle cut-glass hangers
as they lift off to carpet bomb our dreams.
Some are more wolf than dragon,
they form packs of loup-garou,
and snap at the heavy-handed
and
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Categories:
snapdragons, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Stately Snapdragons
Delicate petals on stately stalks sway in the breeze,
sweet, scented nectar attracts hummingbirds and bees.
I watch them while sipping iced tea in my lawn chair,
Snapdragons adorn my garden with a decorative flair.
They're not fire-breathing blooms, standing in sunlight,
proudly displaying a variety of colors, bold and bright.
They grace my walkways in the seasons, spring and fall
as
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Categories:
snapdragons, beautiful, flower,
Form: Rhyme
Dance of Snapdragons
snapdragons dancing
stirred by the gentle zephyr...
grooving side to side
Writing Challenge 2, March 2019 - Haiku- Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Dear Heart (Winner: 2nd Place)
Date written and posted: 03/15/2019
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Categories:
snapdragons, flower, imagery, nature, wind,
Form: Haiku
Snapdragons and Dandy Lions - Part 1
"Snapdragons and Dandy Lions (Part 1)"
“Don’t move,” she smiled gently,
“stay there, stop fidgeting, let me put these in your hair”,
I was sitting cross-legged
on the lush green bluegrass lawn
it felt like 70’s Shagpile carpet,
long and unshorn.
“I said, don’t move! There’s a Blue Tongue over there,
you’ll frighten it away, they don’t like to be scared.”
She
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Categories:
snapdragons, childhood, daughter, joy, love,
Form: Free verse
Snapdragons and Dandy Lions - Part 2
"Snapdragons and Dandy Lions - Part 2"
The day was cooling down
pressing itself close into
the amythest and musk pink early eve
as the eggshell pale blue sky rolled over into
Astor Purple to get ready for sleep.
The Ostrich Ferns rustled,
We’d frightened the Blue Tongue, he’d run back to his lair.
Coming in from the Ocean
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Categories:
snapdragons, childhood, daughter, joy, love,
Form: Free verse
Snapdragons Crackle
Snapdragons Crackle
Snapdragons crackle
in the air for Maura
and her flowing gait,
a swagger neither Nora
nor Maureen would ever
let a suitor savor.
Maura knows
that in her wake
men with scythes
and burlap sacks,
creep like gators,
eyes afire, jaws agape.
Nora and Maureen
can smell these men.
Unlike Maura
and her flowing gait,
Nora and Maureen will smile,
take their
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Categories:
snapdragons, girlfriend-boyfriend
Form: Free verse