Blooms

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birds, bluebells, campion, flowers, garden, haiku, nature, spring, weather

along green hedgerows

blue bells and pink campions

so blooming perfect

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Lilies

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flowers, garden, haiku, lilies, nature, people, poetry

Cut for her pleasure
four white lilies, resplendent
golden pollen falls

 

Now I wish I’d written ‘Gilded with pollen.’ Ah well.

Calm

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calm, flowers, haiku, nature, poem, tulip

robed in palest green

a saffron coloured tulip

lends calm elegance

Curve

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elegance, flowers, haiku, nature, poetry, snail, tulip, wildlife

an elegant curve
caressing a tulip bud
that small, golden snail

Wilt

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breeze, flowers, garden, haiku, magnolia, nature, poem, poetry, weather

Anchored to sunlight
shadows dance in the soft breeze
magnolias wilt

Canoodle

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beauty, catkins, flowers, haiku, nature, poem, poetry, season, spring, trees, weather, wildlife, winter

On seeing signs of Spring

catkins canoodle
on the coolest of grey days
sap readies for Spring

Mammon

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beauty, blooms, flowers, haiku, life, mammon, orchids, profit

On seeing beauty in odd places

piled next to onions
orchids in supermarket
beauty for Mammon

pink

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anemone, autumn, blooms, fall, flowers, haiku, joy, poetry, weather

a beautiful day
autumn flowers nod in breeze
pink anemone

 

Were you there?

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dreams, flowers, haiku, memory, poetry, sunflower

Tried to remember
A dream of a sunflower
Were you with me there?

Promise

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bees, blackcurrants, flowers, fruit, garden, nature, poem, poetry, pollen, promise, summer, tanka

On watching bees indulge   (Tanka)

Blackcurrant flowers
Unassuming little blooms
Beloved by the bees
Promise of rich summer fruits
Blackbirds must wait for their haul