the first cattail heads
have erupted in fluff:
autumn in progress.
Autumnal Fluff [Haiku]
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Tag Archives: plants
Beauty-Blind Bees [Haiku]
a plain, green plant
crawls with bees-o-plenty:
despite no bright blooms.
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Aquatic Boundary [Haiku]
aquatic plants grow
out to the swift waters,
forming a clean edge.
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Lily Pac-Man [Senryū]
Pac-Men multiply: sought by too few upside-down lily “ghosts.”
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Bowed Flower [Haiku]
weary sunflowers
turn their backs on the sun:
heads bowed.
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Buds & Blossoms [Haiku]
buds & blossoms,
in vibrant red, gussy up
a dreary cityscape.
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Passiflora [Free Verse]
Passiflora looks like space-age technology. it seems like it should pick up signals from the far reaches of space... but I doubt it does.
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Laurel Clockvine [Haiku]
sunlight glows from the trumpet-hole of laurel clockvine.
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Shy Flowers [Haiku]
Have You Seen a Tree Bleed? [Free Verse]
Have you seen a tree bleed?
Yes. I've seen a tree bleed.
It bled bright red arterial blood...
or sap --
but not that sticky, very viscous
kind of sap that one knows from Maples.
This was the consistency of blood,
as well as its color.
It's disconcerting to see
the scratched bark of a tree
ooze a fluid so blood-like.
It makes one question
one's assumptions,
such as whether a tree feels:
a scratch or cut or the nail
pounded into its trunk to
hang something for one's
momentary convenience.
And when I see lover's initials
carved into a tree, I now can't help
but wonder how the lovers would feel
about the tree's initials being carved
into their flesh.
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