Aesculus
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Leaves are crinkled, wrinkled, wrapped up tight
Their unfurling is a sight
Watching with delight
All is right
Grow
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Round clustered buds open to pure white
Panicles rise to new heights
Watching with delight
All is right
Show
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Have better things to do I might
But I could stay here all night
Watching with delight
All is right
Know
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( A Triquint Poem)
April Tulip
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The day April showers bring May flowers
What do those showers do for the April blooms?
Whether gentle or hard, minutes or hours
They create blossoms to brighten the gloom
Bringing in the new season with perfume.
Colorful flowers bedazzled with drops
Rather than slicker it’s a rain costume
Embellished with jewels from bottom to top.
So it seems that these spring thundershowers
Accessorize but don’t over power.
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(A Decuain Poem)
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)
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)
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.
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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)
Turkeys
On a spring walk
A few Toms, lots of hens
Toms showing off, hens don’t notice
Fresh bright green grass seems more interesting
Toms strut their stuff with their tails up
Under clear bright blue skies
Hens seek different
Turkeys
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(A Rictameter 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)
In Like A Lion
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Calendar says spring
But it’s still snowing
A vernal foot has fallen
The flakes weigh so much
Folks complain and such
Likely praying for pollen
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Not me though, I’m thrilled
A snowman I’ll build
Snow any time of the year
Produces such joy
Others I annoy
As I let out a loud cheer.
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(An Alouette Poem)
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