lone Dog-rose bloom
sways in a Spring breeze,
lulling into trance.
Dog-Rose [Haiku]
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trunk ringed by fallen blooms,
only the pate contains hangers-on.

butterfly lands
on flower, pumps wings twice,
and sputters off.
We should not mind so small a flower
Except it quiet bring
Our little garden that we lost
Back to the Lawn again -
So spicy her Carnations nod -
So drunken, reel her Bees -
So silver, steal a hundred flutes
From out a hundred trees -
That whoso sees this little flower
By faith, may clear behold
The Bobolinks around the throne
And Dandelions gold.