summer leaves fall
but petals always bloom,
in memory
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Tag Archives: Poetry Friday
Goodbye, Green
Goodbye water lilies, maples leaves, loosestrife and reed,
Goodbye lotus lilies, cattails, cress and pickerelweed. Continue reading
Reverie
reverie on a hillside,
oh to be a silver birch
warm in summer sun
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Love Note
autumn blooms,
each petal a love note
to seed-stars
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Magic of Five
How Many Fives Can You Find In
tuning
a star
a maple leaf
a baby’s open hand
and wiggling toes Continue reading
Pet Wild
I have the smallest pets.
I don’t keep them in a cage. Continue reading
To Be a Covered Bridge
I like people who are like covered bridges,
sturdy and solid as houses, peaceful, still,
upright and bridging wide gulfs.
They take the high road. Their troubles wash away,
like floodwaters diverted into channels
fringed with loosestrife and cattails. Continue reading
Wildflower Blue
yellow dots of bees
broken clouds, sewn with sun
wildflower-blue field Continue reading
Pollen Puff
like pink fairy trees
Astilbe brushes my knees
pollen puff <sneeze!>
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Geyser of Ideas
September brings so many thoughts, ideas and plans,
things to do, see to, begin, accomplish and enjoy,
that my subterranean reservoir fills until ideas
geyser up in a hot, fraught fountain of chaos. Continue reading
Summer Postcard Swap
Thanks to Carol Varsalona who sent me dreams, hopes and fairy dust. Continue reading
Friendly Fairy Tales 