Best Myrtle Poems

Eventide’s misty winds gently oscillate
Colorful clusters of crepe-myrtle flowers
Crowning atop rows of elegant tree-trunks
Blooms lavender, pink, red, and purple
Hanging in air from tips of twigs...

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As the garden grows…


This one is For Sythia  
       Rose may not agree  
She’s the one who...

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O, beauty, blooming late under summer sun, 
unrestrained crape myrtle, indeed you are one
species I will allow blest freedom to run
in wild abandonment.

You alone grace...

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Myrtle the Turtle

There once was a turtle named Myrtle.
She could speed through a maze and climb a hurdle.

While she was small, she was a friend...

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Lost like unused syllables in unrhyming words
petals of frilled sorrow drip to the earth from weeping trees, 
crying each filigreed petal slowly, one by one,...

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Crape Myrtle tree, a beautiful sight
Blooming in summer as days turn warm
Purple petals fall, a visual delight
Crape Myrtle tree, a beautiful sight
Delicate blooms, soaking up...

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crepe myrtle's bare limbs
peeled bark reveals red-brown tone...
sparse seed pods remain  ...

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Myrtle Beach was fun,
lots of surf, shells, sand, and sun,
and relaxation....

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Alas this is a tale of overweight Myrtle
With help from ladies getting into her girdle,
They stressed and strained and pulled so hard,
When an exploding Myrtle...

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Crepe Myrtle flower
Delicate inviting bees
Come early breakfast...

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hot pink wig blowing 
in the wind around thick limbs
razor smooth barkless


For Linda Marie's contest...

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Myrtle the turtle was as slow as could be
She knew she could never climb up a tree
She knew she could never win a big race
She...

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There once was a turtle named Myrtle
Stuck in a plastic ring girdle
It altered her mass
Into an hourglass
Leaving her deformed and infertile....

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Nurse Tina went to work one day, feeling pretty good.
Things usually didn’t work out, just as she thought they should.
Today she said would be different;...

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Salty mistiness enters my head.
Nostrils take in. Waves crash!

Sting rays sting! Crabs scatter!
Sandcastles, built wet on dry sand.

Walking miles on water-lapped shore.
Caesar remains, constant companion.
Then...

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