soon

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beauty, brief, ephemeral, flowers, haiku, magnolia, poetry

On seeing pink petals fall

 
pale magnolia
an ephemeral affair
beauty so soon lost

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Bruised

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beauty, camellia, flowers, garden, haiku, loss, nature, poetry, rain, spring, weather, wildlife

bruised by springtime rains
delicate camellia
brief lives cut so short

dawdlers

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chores, daffodil, flowers, garden, haiku, nature, poems, poetry, work

outdoor chores beckon
garden shed needs coat of paint
daffodils dawdle

fall

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blooms, flowers, haiku, poem, poetry, roses

perfectly formed blooms
those roses bought on a whim
see, the petals fall

survival

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bucolic, flowers, nature, poetry, urnan

A  tale of urban survival

Thriving in the environmentally impoverished boundary between the tarmacadamed forecourt and the demarcating brickwork of the porch step, a baker’s dozen of summer-yellow flowers flounce in the light breeze.

seeds

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flowers, haik, nature, poem, seasons, seeds, summer, sweetpeas

fair scented sweet pea
faded with summer time’s warmth
seeds in paper bag

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