Sunday best

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beans, catholic, flowers, haiku, photography, poem, poetry, runner beans, vestments

runner bean flowers
hat red as any bishop’s
whitest of vestments

summer’s time

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anemones, flowers, gardening, gardens, haiku, lupin, nature, seedpods, summer, time

anemones bloom
lupins’ hairy seedpods formed
Summer’s wax and wane

Loot

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bees, flowers, garden, haiku, honey, nature, photograph, photography, pollen, pollenate

Honey bee heads home
Loaded with plundered booty
Flowers get their cut

Rosemary

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beauty, flowers, gardens, haiku, herbs, Rosmarinus officinalis

 

Fairest of all herbs
Rosemary, sweet Rosemary
Such simple beauty

sunbursts

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dandelions, flowers, haiku, mist, sun, sunbursts, weather, wind

west wind swirls grey mist
sunbursts of dandelions
pierce diffused light

primitive beauty

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ancient, flowers, genus, haiku, magnolia, spring, tertiary

 

Subtle pink candles
Tertiary perfection
Magnolia in bloom

jostle

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buds, camellias, flowers, haiku, plants, season, spring

crowding the green leaves
camellia buds jostle
soon a burst of red

Lost

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flowers, loss, poem, poetry, roadside, sadness, shrine, time

on passing a road side shrine

 

Haphazard blooms
From sodden bouquets
Roadside pathos
Empty armed,
Teddies with fixed grins
Clutch condolence cards
“Now with the Angels”
“Rest in Peace”
“Miss you”
Traffic, and time, passes

Winter Gorse

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flowers, gorse, haiku, seasons, spikes, sunshine, winter, yellow

 

soaking up the sun
winter gorse lights the hillside
spikes guard the glory

early

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daffodil, flowers, garden, haiku, seasons, weather, winter

a daffodil blooms
on the first day of the year
bulbs in a hurry