pink

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

a beautiful day
autumn flowers nod in breeze
pink anemone

 

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Were you there?

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haiku, poetry, flowers, dreams, sunflower, memory

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

Condemed

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beauty, flowers, haiku, photography, poem, poetry, sadness, trapped

Imprisoned in gloom
flowers at a closed window
condemned by beauty

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

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