Garden Flower Poems

*The poet waits quietly to paint the unsaid*
6 million or more flowers to honor the dead

It's such a little thing-- remembrance, with flowers
a labor of...

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White Diamond Bellflower, shiny marble lady
Dance with me in the cemetery, in the world of death
You are a transparent marble, a beautiful creature of my...

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The flower blooms, 
Petals unfurl, 
A beacon of beauty, 
Sometimes in a harsh world.

The poetic muse,
Takes flight on the breeze, 
Words dance and shimmer, 
Like...

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Weedy Eschatology

By Mark D. Stucky
The aging street mourns its faded splendor.
It remembers having red tulips and roses
in manicured, fertilized, emerald lawns
in community yards lining its...

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nestled under mulch 
life begins with just a seed 
searching for the sun...

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As the early summer air ripples in my meadow, 
I see the dance of dulcet patina on dainty petals, 
unfurling with the touch of the...

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As the early summer air ripples in my meadow, 
I see the dance of dulcet patina on dainty petals, 
unfurling with the touch of the...

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Black-eyed Susan, a Summer doll.
Bright, yellow, with downturned petals.
My childhood shadow skips along
the trail with honeysuckle scent.

Flow’rs stunning in a garden fete.
Her sunrays smile in...

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“It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is you are flowering.” Rajnesh

Placed 10th in:
Admire a...

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"For a Painted Daisy every day is a new beginning to start again,
to find beauty in small things, like a butterfly caress or a...

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Sunlit petals can be found
Underneath a center round,
Nodding ... both to and fro
Finding summer breezes' blow,
Loyal to a warm embrace 
Over to the sun they...

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“flowers and friends both bring color to my world.”     ~~ The Poet ~~

There was spring in the air. He saw Summer...

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Flowing through my heart’s hesitant beat, rhythms of light – graceful and quiet, reminding me why I can always find peace in the garden, where...

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Rose red, white, pink, or yellow, is not merely a rose.
It has the beauty and fragrance to hypnotize us all,
Jasmine and Gardenia have fragrance so...

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I wander about, surrounded by the hush of heaven.

There is a red hibiscus blooming in the summertime garden.
The sight of its touch enamors me: a...

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