Tulip Tuesday

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tulip Tuesday,
silky petals proudly cup
sunshine

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A Tulip of Thanks

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tulips tremble
with thanks for every raindrop,  Continue reading

#PoetryFriday — Starry, Starry Spring

Flowering Tree

starry petals,
snow foreshadowed
their fall

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Orchid Haiku

White orchids

orchid open,
the sky in summer
a child’s heart

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Signs of Spring

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snow doesn’t stick
buds burst, robins return
it’s spring

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Under the Snow

Tiny Japanese irises

Under the snow
that falls today,
are blooms that
smell like blue sky
and sunshine.

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Celebrating Women

Sunflower

Here is a cheery sunflower MicroSonnet for International Women’s Day.

So much depends
on having good friends.
Unlike the sunflower,
we women need to build,
bubbling with superpower,
yet yearning to feel fulfilled. Continue reading

Summer Leaves

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summer leaves fall
but petals always bloom,
in memory

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Raspberry Leaves

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tiny hydrangea flowers
hide among raspberry leaves,
like autumn-hued beacons

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Love Note

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autumn blooms,
each petal a love note
to seed-stars

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Bee Patient

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towering salvia stalk,
every tiny purple trumpet
is tenderly touched Continue reading

Prairie Petals

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Flowers from the prairie
evoke a time when
pronghorns fled buffalo,
and prairie dogs
nibbled sagebrush
amid burrowing owls
and mountain plover.  Continue reading