And Then You Rained
...Your first touch awakened in me
A longing, a lotus
A love I once thought dead
You stood there and filled
My entire sky with only that sole
Moonstone look in your eyes
The one that told me I was...
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Categories:
wild mustard, love, nature, rain,
Form: Free verse
Garden of My Dreams
...How many years did I plant
dig and dig up again and silently rant
where a flower placed here, should be moved from here to there
at first, not well planning where
this one or that one should g...
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Categories:
wild mustard, flower, garden,
Form: Rhyme
The Mustard Seed
...The mustard seed
a wild mustard seed took flight
carried aloft in gathering light
over thistle'd sage and poppies
in countless colorful copies
as brash rain showers sub...
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Categories:
wild mustard, children, earth, flower, nursery
Form: Couplet
The Gardens of May
...The garden now
recovering from winter's barren ice cold
begins to grow in April rain showers;
lush with a multitude of greens
a grace of earthen decor releases colors
and scents floating in ...
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Categories:
wild mustard, beauty, color, flower, spring,
Form: Narrative
Spring Growth
...Let the wild mustard and tansy grow
both tall and prolific, spreading freely
along the edges of the garden, seedlings from the wood.
Beneath the plum and pear, near the sycamore and cherry,
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Categories:
wild mustard, beauty, flower, garden, growth,
Form: Free verse
Spring In Bloom
...Cream colored tulips and satin red roses
intermix fluid in the garden.
One flower fades away as another takes it place,
like croci giving in to daffodils.
Marsh daisies and wild violets blen...
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Categories:
wild mustard, april, flower, daffodils,
Form: Couplet