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Tag Archives: nature
Siren Summer
Summer’s Siren Song
makes me long for warmth
dream of hot sunshine
on my bare arms and remember
the relief of leaf-cast shade
and lakewater teasing my ankles. Continue reading
Winter Dandelion
dandelion down,
its frozen petals and stem
hoard sunshine
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Icy Green Heart
the forest’s green heart
taps an icy morse code,
calling the sun
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Raspberry Leaves
tiny hydrangea flowers
hide among raspberry leaves,
like autumn-hued beacons
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Howdy, Poetry Friend
Welcome to my Poetry Friday Halloween party. Here’s the guest of honor and winner of the costume contest. Anyone know who my little beetle is? I found him on a lilac. He was about the length of my thumb nail. Continue reading
Color Yearn
With the silver sun
before sunset,
the world turns
an over-bright
black and white. Continue reading
New Growth
Something secret
sprouts overnight
from the damp dark.
Rejection spawns insight.
A new direction,
a white knight, Continue reading
Symmetry
Symmetry of petals green,
hens and chicks, a flock of
rosettes and buds,
from maid to mother to crone. Continue reading
Bee Patient
towering salvia stalk,
every tiny purple trumpet
is tenderly touched Continue reading
Pet Wild
I have the smallest pets.
I don’t keep them in a cage. Continue reading
Prairie Petals
Flowers from the prairie
evoke a time when
pronghorns fled buffalo,
and prairie dogs
nibbled sagebrush
amid burrowing owls
and mountain plover. Continue reading
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