Tag Archives: flower

Mountain Azalea [Lyric Poem]

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Photograph of a cluster of pink Mountain Azalea with barren woods in the background. Taken on the Sawnee Mountain Trail in North Georgia.
One cluster of Mountain Azalea
   Stands out like royal regalia,
 Adorning a near naked vagrant --
    But much more pleasingly fragrant.

First Blossom [Haiku]

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petal flutters down
 from clustered Cherry Blossoms;
  is it the first?

Daisy Waves [Haiku]

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Photographs of Ox-Eye Daisies taken in Baku, Azerbaijian.
ox-eye daisies
 ripple in the wind, or
  when tousled by hand.

Blossom Blush [Haiku]

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white blossom clusters —
 Cherry trees of Early Spring:
  some blooms blush, some not.

Yellow Blossom [Haiku]

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yellow blossoms
 herald the Spring:
  fragrance spreads the news.

Last Blossom [Haiku]

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bloom-laden Cherry
 tree attracts no viewers;
  the last blossom does.

Cheeky Crawler [Free Verse]

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Photograph of a bug on a Fleabane wildflower on Namsan, south of Gyeongju, South Korea.
Does the bug
   atop a wildflower
 think itself master
   of all it surveys?

Dog-Rose [Haiku]

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lone Dog-rose bloom
 sways in a Spring breeze,
  lulling into trance.

Hangers On [Haiku]

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trunk ringed by fallen blooms, 
only the pate contains hangers-on.

Claustrophobic [Haiku]

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carpenter bee
 crawls into clock vine bloom;
  freefalls into flight.