Pasque Flower
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Soft purple flowers detract
From the gloomy gray
Of a spring yet to arrive
To push cold away.
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Perhaps the reason
For this bright floral drama
Is to fool seasons.
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(A Seguidilla Poem)
The Four Seasons
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Orion stands up in the sky
Silently unique snowflakes fly
Woodstove full and warmly glowing
With each moment days are growing, lips and skin dry
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Up in the sky Leo now sits
New jeweltone flowers are sunlit
Songbirds are back to raise their young
Cleansing raindrops to dance among, warming a bit.
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Scorpio rises up at night
Flowers everywhere glowing bright
Arm sleeves rolled up over shoulders
Lone bonfire ember smolders, cool sheets just right
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Pegasus marks the shorter days
Trees put on colorful displays
Through fallen leaves hiking boots crunch
Birds and butterflies by the bunch migrate away.
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(A Florette Poem)
Crocus
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Up through old brown crunchy leaves
Emerges a bloom of gold
Up through old brown crunchy leaves
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Undeterred that it’s still cold
A small island of beauty
Emerges a bloom of gold
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Petite bloom is a cutie
Nectar and pollen for bees
A small island of beauty
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Glinting far beneath the trees
A bright harbinger of spring
Nectar and pollen for bees
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Unwary of what spring will bring
First of many on the way
A bright harbinger of spring.
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Petals open in the day
Up through old brown crunchy leaves
First of many on the way
Up through old brown crunchy leaves.
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(A Terzanelle Poem)
Spring
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Spring days warm up slowly
Coaxing soft buds to free what hides
Crumpled tightly inside
The event multiplied many times
When conditions are prime
Setting the paradigm for spring
The time for emerging.
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(A Luc Bat Poem)
Beauty Comes from All Angles
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We
Need to
Focus on
Admiring
The backs of flowers
Delighting in beauty
From every single angle
Exploring glory tucked away
As well as the grace sent skyward
Slyly distracting from all the splendor.
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(An Etheree Poem)
Iris reticulata
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Enduring many snow showers
With blooms I can stare at for hours
On gray cold days they don’t cower
Winter flowers! Winter flowers!
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(A Monotetra Poem)
Bleeding Heart
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Over the phone I learned the news
Because face-to-face you couldn’t bear
And so a coward’s way you choose
A funny way of showing care.
I actually felt my heart tear
Suddenly lost and all alone
Life became defined by despair
All because you have no backbone.
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(Huitain Poem)
Oncidium
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There hangs an orchid on the wall
Yellow flowers not shy at all
Looking closely I’m sure you’ll see
Beauty even though they are small
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Squinting hard you may even see
The curvy lines of a lady
Head to toe in a cancan dress
With lots of personality
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This may be a stretch I confess
To see in a bloom a fancy dress
And lady from the cabaret
It’s fun to picture nonetheless.
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(An Interlocking Rubaiyat Poem)
A Picture and a Poem 