Category: flowers
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Mid-November green
white blooms leaves like small hands mid-November green if mom was a southern girl she would have planted one in our yard 11-9-21
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Freedom
What city landscape architect had money left over in their budget To throw away on a fence for only one side of a pond; Any child or old man can walk around? On the water side of the fence, a Fall flurry of flowers grows white and wild. On my side of the wire, two…
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early autumn haiku
reluctant summer resists the famine of light winter’s promised night 10-4-21
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haiku to a wildflower
be kind to yourself garden flowers’ ancestors mother curses as weeds 8-31-21
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Alchemy 007
orchid bee collector of scents mixer and blender perfume maker alchemist of love stirs a cocktail all his life for a few seconds of sex 5-26-21
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wet paint
Before rain comes to fill my ears with neighborhood gossip, I gathered yard debris, admired the blooming azaleas, the last blood red camellia, I plan to sit outside on the porch, attempt, once more, to hack recursive algorithms, fractal Pollack patterns petals drip in homage on moss or maybe, I’ll take a nap. 3-31-21
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Beatitudes
Blessed is the morning Blessed is the coffee Blessed is the sun before the rain Blessed are the birds that dampen the traffic noise Blessed is the train that wails and the siren song that fades Blessed is the drone of the plane that stays aloft Blessed are the dog walkers, the couples, the skateboarders,…
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haikus from Congaree with the grandson
brown snake suns on log bright flowers bloom on green stem turtle swims nearby grey dead pine stands tall cypress wades water knee deep woodpecker loves both lichen grows on logs wind counsels trees about death birds call down the sun 3-26-21
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winter rain haikus
rain drops are blameless concentric circles collide winter weeps all day green water swimmers long-legged blue heron, grey geese and yellow pollen stamens and pistils white blossoms dancing in rain fall exhausted to ground 3-16-21