Tiger Riding for Beginners

Traveling Poet Philosopher & Occasional Wiseacre

Spring wildflowers
 cluster among the rocks; 
  sheep bells clang nearby.

yellow petals drop:
 on the lake: washed together;
  on the ground: spread out.

flowers are rock stars:
 standing tall & proud before 
  the swaying grass.

wildflowers 
 own the glade
  for a few days.

the first cattail heads
 have erupted in fluff:
  autumn in progress.

a plain, green plant
 crawls with bees-o-plenty: 
  despite no bright blooms.

aquatic plants grow 
 out to the swift waters,
  forming a clean edge.

Pac-Men multiply:
 sought by too few upside-down 
  lily “ghosts.”

weary sunflowers
 turn their backs on the sun:
  heads bowed.

buds & blossoms,
 in vibrant red, gussy up
  a dreary cityscape.