Wildflower Wildfire

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A wildflower wildfire
has set the California hills
ablaze in royal purple,
poppy-orange and
an exuberant yellow,
visible from space. Continue reading

Dreaming of Bluebells

I’m going to fall asleep in a bluebell wood, thanks to Lavender G! You can join me, if you want to embrace some color magic. I think Monet and van Gogh would have liked these woods.

lavendermoongirl's avatarLavender Moon: Artist, Poet and Lover of Nature

I dreamabout being in a bluebell woodland,

Morning’s dampness on my hands.

I find a torn seam in elemental’s veil;

Ask to enter the precious trail.



Bare toes tickling on grassy moss,

Nose wrinkling as plumes of bluebells waft;

Lost in a deep purple blue lake,


Looking at the shapes the old oak makes,

Their wizened branches seeking light,

Orange tip butterflies flee with all their might!


Woodland’s serenade fades gently like a breeze;

I take a sip of Titania’s tea,

Finding myself mixing a pool of morning dew

With soothing dainty hues from the bluebell wood

on my watercolour palette ready for a new painting to emerge.

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Lakeside

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Lakeside, I am honey-drizzled,
in an inky trance, like tea
left too long in the sun. My arm
is a mossy log, lined with turtles. Continue reading

Tulips in Thyme

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Tulips,
risque-ripe
purplicious
spring’s archetype
scent-delicious Continue reading

Tom-Wild the Turkey

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Tom-Wild
never smiles
looks both left and right Continue reading

Moon Touched

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A poet,
dismissed from Heaven,
trees truth Continue reading

2017 Progressive Poem

I’m here to tell you that building a poem with 29 other poets has shivered my timbers and set my castle alight. Read down, and you will see my line, bold and italicized, emerge like a flying monkey from the otherwise well-mannered unfolding. I think it may be carrying a torch. Or is that my hair on fire? (Terror, you cannot defeat me.)

2017 Kidlitosphere Progressive Poem

The Secret Inside the Book

I’m fidget, friction, ragged edges—
I sprout stories that frazzle-dazzle, Continue reading

Reverso Poem

Blue Anemone Windflower

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Windflower
opens
eye,
seeing
first
butterfly. Continue reading

Cirque de Printemps

Purple Crocuses

Crocuses raise cheery salutes,
opening orange invitations to
invite us to Come One, Come All,
to spring’s circus in the meadow. Continue reading

Goodbye, Winter

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Goodbye, Winter.
Ciao, deep snow.
Time to dig out
my pink maillot. Continue reading

Blessing Rain

Columbine and ivy in the rain

I step out of my writing cave
into a day of misty rain, blinking.
A squirrel is digging
a hole in the dark soil. Continue reading

Old Hat

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Snow is old hat.
We’re ready for a new topper,
a cold stopper: Continue reading