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)
Tag: horticulture poem
February 28
Dinner
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Insect
Finds a meal
While leaf
Is rolled
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Patient observer
Searches for
Hole punch.
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(A Septolet Poem)
February 27
Seeing Red
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I explore the warm conservatory
With the goal of finding the color red
Scanning canopy and understory
Looking in containers and planting beds
Miss no detail below or overhead
This quick scavenger hunt opened my eyes
To wonders I may have missed otherwise
Can’t wait to go back and explore again
Looking closely to see the next surprise
It is not a matter of if but when.
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(A Dizain Poem)
February 25
Fagus grandifolia – An Elegy
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How tragic to see your current state
A fraction of your former self, age lines exposed
Your web of roots continuing to operate
Despite trunk, branches and sky being juxtaposed.
Your large beautiful being we did celebrate
You’d live forever we supposed
Your community contributions did motivate
And to your untimely death we were opposed.
As the value of your life we contemplate
We know another could never duplicate
You will never cease to fascinate
More of you we will try to cultivate.
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(An Elegy)
February 24
Fagus grandifolia – An Epitaph
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Here lies an American Beech
Who cleaned our water and scrubbed our air,
Kept animals safe from predators’ reach
And to wildlife, her beechnuts did share.
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In her community she played a large part
And though her absence will be profound
Generations will continue, thanks to her heart
For now where she was, the sun hits the ground.
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(An Epitaph)
February 21
Winter Aconite
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Wearing ruffled scarves in the green of spring
at once an army of flowers emerge
though it’s cold and there may even be snow.
The troops have quickly spanned, naturalizing,
longer, warmer days causing the upsurge
from small brown tubers submerged deep below.
In gold cup-shaped helmets these soldiers spread.
Platoons March around the garden to merge
head to head, creating a glow
through which no other would be so bold to tread
but slow.
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(A Curtal Sonnet)
February 20
A Walk Around the Conservatory
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Ornate patterns unconstrained
Marvelous textures galore
Feeling, touching, entertained
Leaves bring joy as I explore.
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(An Ae Freislighe Poem)
February 19
Crocus
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The calendar whispers,
“it is still winter here
in the northern hemisphere.”
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The warm air envelopes
encouraging the soft hum of bees buzzing
hinting to something otherwise.
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Countless bright purple crocus rise
to scream loudly
“spring is on the way!”
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(A Triversen Poem)
February 18
The Slipper Orchids
Phragmapedium
Paphiopedilum
Cypripedium
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Insect attractor
Attention grabber
Wall flower
Shoe bloom
Clever co-evolver
Illusion creator
Terrestrial trickster
Embellished epiphyte
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(A Kenning Poem – or more specifically a poem of Kennings)
February 16
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 