Cercidiphyllum japonicum
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Autumn is showing!
Magic is in the air
Colors are glowing
No season can compare
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Magic is in the air
The fragrance of love
Is just everywhere
Below and above
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Colors are glowing
Most everyone can see
Smell is mind blowing
Lost on so many
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No season can compare
Vanilla filled sky
You miss if unaware
Not just for the eye.
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(A Quadrilew Poem)
Purple Beans
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The purple beans are ready for harvest
From long vines upon the tired old fence
Of course there’s inspection with a taste test
Please believe the fresh-picked flavor is intense
Have to be sure not to eat the whole lot
Before I can get them into the pot.
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(An English Sestet Poem)
Permanent Bloom
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In a garden full of real blooms
I’m drawn to the metal flowers
On the gates of the garden rooms
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Lasting eons instead of hours
Never bothered by garden pests
Patinaed by weather’s power
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Within may still find insect nests
Though not a perfect habitat
Upon it you’ll find a bird rests
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(An Enclosed Triplet Poem)
Plucky
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Tiny seed settles in a crack
Dormant during the winter storms
Emerging from the dark tarmac
As the cold solid soil warms
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Strongly choosing not to conform
Tiny seed settles in a crack
Seemingly bucking all the norms
Some folks may be taken aback
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Of course there are a few drawbacks
But tradition doesn’t inform
Tiny seed settles in a crack
Persistently the plant performs
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Through every season she transforms
For success she has quite the knack
While refusing to be uniform
Tiny seed settles in a crack.
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(A Empat Empat Poem)
No Need for Seymour
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Curvaceous evolution
In chartreuse and burgundy stripes
Beguiling and self-sufficient
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Insects find tubes irresistible
Sweet nectar filled death trap
Slippery, treacherous, efficient
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Silent still tropical carnivore
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Exciting, beautiful, mysterious
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(An Indrisos Poem)
Anticipation
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Just a little clue
On display by you
To see
A glimpse of the hue
Reveals color true
Maybe
Magnitude preview
Wondering who you
Will be
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(A Bergerette Poem)
Papaver orientale
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Floppy
Poppy
Opening wide
Concealed
Revealed
Beauty inside
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(A Brevee Poem)
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Sky blue and sapphire, sharp angles and points
These annual flowers never disappoint
Amidst a sea of ferny feathery leaves
Soft delicate look definitely deceives
Angled flowers fade, curvy seed heads appear
Purple striped sage green pods house seeds of next year
Love-in-a-mist some say it grows like a weed
Returning year after year from those small seeds
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(A Mathnawi Poem)
Liriodendron tulipifera
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The branches terminate gloriously
In flowers displaying magnificent
Shape, hidden overhead apically
Where winged wildlife investigate
Them, until descending elegantly
To forests’ humusy terra firma
Where humans finally appreciate.
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(A Ropalic Poem)
Clematis
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One day the vine’s all green leaves and promise
Next day a solo flower opens wide
This year’s display I sure don’t want to miss
Each time I think to I observe wide-eyed
In a blink becomes stunningly adorned
Palm-sized flowers cover plant in masses
Those fuzzy green buds will never be mourned
If you can’t see beauty you need glasses
Counts among botanical badasses
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(A Novelinee Poem)
A Picture and a Poem 