Tag Archives: plants

Flower Mind [Free Verse]

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Morning Glories
   don’t feel slighted
 because they bloomed 
   in the shadow of
   Mexican Sunflowers…

Though the humans 
   who otherwise might
 stop to admire them
   can now not be 
 bothered to notice them.

Pansy Patch [Haiku]

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pansy patch:
 rabbit noses out,
  sniffing air.

Fearful Flowers? [Senryū]

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stunted flowers:
 in fear of mower
  decapitation?

Death Denied [Haiku]

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a dead tree
 swallowed by creepers
  greens from base up.

Guileless Hibiscus [Free Verse]

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translucent hibiscus:
   keeps its secrets
      in its folds; 
   anywhere petals
      don't double over,
   the light shines through.

hanging face down --
    pistil dangling --
 pockets emptied by
    gravity.

 the jungle beyond blurs.

Beautiful Menace [Haiku]

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bougainvillea
 spill over a wall:
  beautiful menace.

Gangly Sunflower [Haiku]

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in an open field,
 one sunflower towers,
  its head drooping.

Water Lily [Haiku]

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a water lily
 opens in the morning sun:
  reciprocal glow.

Green [Haiku]

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in rainy season,
 grass grows from every crack,
  closing on idols.

Prickly [Senryū]

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a swallowtail
 lands on a thorny thistle,
  resting in comfort.