Daffodil Runes

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a grove of daffodils
circled by bees,
runes of springtime

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Tulip Tuesday

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tulip Tuesday,
silky petals proudly cup
sunshine

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Lion Around

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lion around
in lilac-scented sunshine,
a yellow mellow

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Cherry Blossom Wind

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A day of cherry blossoms
hanging fragile in spring sunshine, Continue reading

A Tulip of Thanks

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tulips tremble
with thanks for every raindrop,  Continue reading

Spring Blue

Just budding trees against a blue sky

the first bumblebee
an envoy from under stone,
sun salutation

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A Book by the Brook — William Carlos Williams

Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.

— William Shakespeare

A Book by the Brook: Book Reviews at FriendlyFairyTales.com

So much depends on the poetry of William Carlos Williams. Without his poetry, how many American poets would still use the formal language of Whitman? Continue reading

#PoetryFriday — Starry, Starry Spring

Flowering Tree

starry petals,
snow foreshadowed
their fall

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Salt Marsh Ditty

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Snail sets sail
on cordgrass stalk.
Gulls squawk.

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Let Me

Heather on a Stone Wall

Let me be the shadow
under your bloom,
the stone that
lifts you,
the lichen that
breaks rock to soil.  Continue reading

Words Keep Me

Pink Hyacinth in Rain

implacable rain
drenches skin, soil and stem but
my words keep me dry

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By the Brambles

Pink Blooms

Groundhogs amble past brambles.
Winter torpor adds a weighty waddle
to their dandelion waltz. Continue reading