Bloodroot
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Breaking ground early spring
Before many others
Boldly emerging white
Brightening dormant ground
Buds rise through folded leaves
Bloom balanced atop stem
Becoming full with sun.
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(A Pleiades 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.
*
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)
Rock Garden
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Walking flat gray gravel trail hand in hand
Soft sound of ground crunching under boots
Taking in the sights along the creek and land
Observing from the canopy to roots
Trekking slowly from hilltop to wetlands
Hearing birds and their chirps, caws and toots
Suddenly something grabs my attention
The names of the plants I can’t help but mention.
*
A rock garden rises next to the trail
Distracting, attracting, enchanting me
Maroon, bright green, blue covering gray shale
No flowers yet to attract the bee
Petite young leaves are anything but frail
Colors and textures abound early
On this cool gray day these are welcome sites
Nature’s vertical rock garden delights.
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(An Ottava Rima Poem)
Shades of Green
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How is it
These wispy shades of green
Find themselves tucked among flat gray knots
Of beech tree roots and frail faded aged autumn leaves
Once ordinarily overlooked
In their simplicity
Now glowing?
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(A Triquain 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)
Pulchritude
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Pulchritude seems the perfect word,
Coarse and lumpy and hard,
To describe the scaly, flakey
Exfoliating, peeling, warty
Beauty of the bark of a tree.
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(A Gogyohka Poem)
Last Moments
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Was mouse in awe of view
From the claw as hawk flew?
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(An Essence Poem)
Making Tracks
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Early morning I go
Into deep snow
Traversing woods aglow
Wondering what is below
Grateful the going is slow
Appreciating the show.
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(A Monorhyme Poem)
I See A Smile
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Blithe
Boulder
Wearing a
New white hat of
Snow
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(A Lanturne Poem)
Oh Brown Shower Spider
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Oh brown shower spider
What do you do all day in here?
Catching insects I never knew were there?
Spinning webs or raising a large spider family?
Enjoying the humidity in this woodstove dried home?
Forming an army of silent patient shower spiders?
Waiting for the just perfect person to bite
to become the next world saving super hero?
Oh brown shower spider, you are welcome here.
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(A Shape Poem – as seen in the picture)
A spider has 8 legs and this poem has eight legs and eight words per leg.
A Picture and a Poem 