Lion Around

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lion around
in lilac-scented sunshine,
a yellow mellow

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Cherry Blossom Wind

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A day of cherry blossoms
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Spring Blue

Just budding trees against a blue sky

the first bumblebee
an envoy from under stone,
sun salutation

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#PoetryFriday — Starry, Starry Spring

Flowering Tree

starry petals,
snow foreshadowed
their fall

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Salt Marsh Ditty

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Snail sets sail
on cordgrass stalk.
Gulls squawk.

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Let Me

Heather on a Stone Wall

Let me be the shadow
under your bloom,
the stone that
lifts you,
the lichen that
breaks rock to soil.  Continue reading

By the Brambles

Pink Blooms

Groundhogs amble past brambles.
Winter torpor adds a weighty waddle
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Angel Spring

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Fresh rain dimples
Mother Ocean,
intertwining with brine
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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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Snow Flies

Newton Upper Falls with snowflakes flying

snow flies
tingles but doesn’t bite,
winter’s waning

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Bittersweet Blues

Stormstorm with blue house

bittersweet spring,
winter has overstayed
cold silence

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