pink blossom drops
in still morning air
beside a quiet lake.
Quiet [Haiku]
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Category Archives: plants
Orbits [Haiku]
spherical blooms,
arrayed like planets,
bees zip through.
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Jacaranda [Haiku]
Jacarandas bloom:
thousands of miles from home,
but no less purple.
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“Illusion” by Amy Lowell [w/ Audio]
Walking beside the tree-peonies,
I saw a beetle
Whose wings were of black lacquer spotted with milk.
I would have caught it,
But it ran from me swiftly
And hid under the stone lotus
Which supports the Statue of Buddha.
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Bee Mind [Haiku]
among Spring flowers,
bees swarm one yellow plant
that doesn't look special.
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“Come slowly — Eden!” (205) by Emily Dickinson [w/ Audio]
Come slowly -- Eden!
Lips unused to Thee --
Bashful -- sip thy Jessamines --
As the fainting Bee --
Reaching late his flower,
Round her chamber hums --
Counts his nectars --
Enters -- and is lost in Balms.
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Blossom Drop [Haiku]
Poppy [Haiku]
cliffside poppy:
bee shakily alights
in a mountain breeze.
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Sunflower Horde [Free Verse]
A horde of sunflowers
Grows on thin stalks
With big, bright heads
That tilt chin-upwards.
Could they stand so tall
And proudly if they weren't
Packed against each other?
When one bitch-slaps a sunflower,
One expects its head to fly
Clean off, but it just does
An angry little head bobble,
And goes about its business,
Looking skyward...
Though - occasionally - one breaks
Into a sad nod.
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Golden Hour [Haiku]
sunup hour:
yellow blossoms turn gold;
one flutters to earth.
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