Poetry of the Wild Flowers Pellitory of the Wall 30 Jun 202317 Jun 2023 I cling between wall and path to untidy your garden, as you crouch-cross to tug me from my crevice. I am happy here sun-basking, drying out after rainfall. My leaves…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Dandelion 29 Jun 202317 Jun 2023 This is the flower to kiss. To blow into fields knowing somewhere suns will open in days to come, and then more air-bombs delicate as an idea that vanishes before…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Potential Historical Weeds 28 Jun 202317 Jun 2023 Librarian in a log cabin computer a nod to technology a message from the regional office: consider the potential for historical weeds. Professional jargon for purging the books gives way…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Wildflower haiku 27 Jun 202317 Jun 2023 Slit wildflower iris — hummingbird hungry for love stabs her in the eye Daybreak whispers of sunrise, wildflower voices awake — breath of night dew fades Fly the ripe poppies…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers March Sun 26 Jun 20237 Jul 2023 How unlikely it seems a wet rock orbiting this star should bring forth car traffic on black roads, birds’ song, from under an old leaf a tiny yellow star-shaped flower…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Late Winter Storm 25 Jun 202317 Jun 2023 Sun tangles in tree branches on the hillside, ignites in high windows; and, under stone, flames on the black creek. Sleet and snowflakes whipped and smoothed spark in miniscule prisms.…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Smiling at a Crocus in the Snow 24 Jun 20238 Jun 2023 A purple-blue intruder violates Winter’s reign of white. Peeking through the snow, a sign of Spring long before we dare to even look for any other signs. Is this, I…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Tenacity 23 Jun 20238 Jun 2023 A poet said: Look to the plants and listen to what they can teach you. When the sun slapped its hot iron down on the land, pressing every inch of…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Weedy Cameos 22 Jun 20238 Jun 2023 I. no one claims undying love for weeds growing by the roadside no respect yet each one lifts up a flower wild with its beauty—a gift untamed II. twisting around…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Blooming 21 Jun 20238 Jun 2023 What are you devoted to? Let me tell you it isn’t pain. It’s something close to beauty, but not quite. It’s not the color of the flower— but the way…
Nature Dandelion Girl 20 Jun 20238 Jun 2023 They call me weed but I am flower wild, again, again I spring surprise Demeter’s daughter newborn windborn I arise, plumes flying defying the reaper’s cuts triumphant against the green…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Ode to the Eastern Redbud 19 Jun 20238 Jun 2023 Colonizer of borderlands, quiet claimer of spaces between, you are neither yin nor yang, but pink-smeared edge of our gray-brown wood, that space where fire coals brood themselves into burst…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Snowdrop Boogie 18 Jun 20238 Jun 2023 Overhead the great cosmic waltz plays, Orion and The Bear turn a lazy two-step, hard earth beneath, A wind that tattoos Scandinavia But still we rise. Come for me when…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Miracle in the Nevada Desert 2019 17 Jun 20238 Jun 2023 Here I am in the rain shadows on the leeward side of the mountain in sun-baked dirt cracked as an old dinner plate. Out of this, I rise alone, a…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers The Wild One 16 Jun 20238 Jun 2023 The pull to emerge became so urgent. Every cell of my being ready to break through soil. To dance in the waves of wind, To feel ablaze in the warmth…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers The Attraction of Wildflowers 15 Jun 20238 Jun 2023 Wildflowers are beautiful and free, dependent on no one. Allowed untouched space they will fleur-ish and show off Bidding us notice them, come and see. Their spotlight will be fleeting,…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers 2009: Botanical Social Call with Konicek-Moran 14 Jun 20238 Jun 2023 On the fire road along the ecotone of sawgrass and pinelands, wildflowers grow in profusion after November’s burn. In winter bloom, endemic and Caribbean alike line our path. You, who…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers In a Field of Daisies 13 Jun 20234 Jun 2023 After days of summer sun and rain, her neighbor’s fallow pasture fills with field daisies. The bouquet that grows in her hands is a gift for the owner’s son; he’s…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Icarus’s Garden 12 Jun 20234 Jun 2023 Last summer, I planted wildflowers. I hoped they would embody a carefree beauty, a disregard for convention. They would stand tall and unruly and refuse to line up in perfect…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Yarrow 11 Jun 20234 Jun 2023 Wound healer, give me protection and divination. The cure for sneaky worries, I find, is to do more, spend less time with the demon thoughts, my Achilles’ heel. When fingers…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers In Praise of Meadows 10 Jun 20234 Jun 2023 Keep your moss-strewn paths and trilling rills, your cold, craggy cliffs of saxifrage, your stunted floribunda tethered to a trellis. Give me instead a wild meadow any season. Let me…
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