The Bees Knees Poetry Friday

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the bees knees
is friends, tea, sunshine,
and poetry

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Golden Days

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nothing makes my heart sing
like fields of wildflowers
and golden days

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Autumn Fragrance

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Wet leaves,
milkweed seed,
painted blooms
honey mead,
fragrance of fall,
floating like Chagall.

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Autumn’s Cool

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autumn’s cool
dwindling days
draw me outside

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Secret Spot

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under green light,
a silent reverie,
shielded from sight

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Art is Poem

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texture and tone,
layers, colors and chaos,
art is poem

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Zinnia Zephyr

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red-orange flames,
breeze across the zinnias
thick with summer scent

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Birdhouse Bard

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Songs in the quiet places,
the in-between spaces, Continue reading

Paths and Choices

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No matter how gorgeous the path,
eventually I come to the end. Continue reading

Daisy Days

 

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crowded banks of daisies
drowse and nod,
smiling

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On Family Summers

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cheek by jowl
close at hand
neck and neck
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A BOOK BY THE BROOK — Friends and Foes

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

Rule-breaking author, Douglas Florian, explores friendship in his new poetry collection, Friends and Foes, Beach Lane Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, 2018. What makes author-illustrator Douglas Florian rule-breaking? Continue reading