I want to know what makes a flower bloom
My tulips look like I planted upside down
Iris are all green with lanky stalk
Lilies look so small and disarrayed
Is it the lack of nutrients in the soil
Or winter’s low shading of the sun
My pear tree must have flower to fruit
Without blooms peas and beans retreat
Do not waste away another day
It’s time to fertilize fertilize fertilize
Come alive
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NaPoWriMo Day 16 prompt to write a curtal sonnet.
Rhododendron
blooming
purple in its splendor
risk taken
after a flower
the fade
no longer the showcase
of the garden
fertilize
mulch the ground
prepare it for
another bloom
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dVerse prompt on risk and remodel— garden is beautiful and then it isn’t
A flower of ancient ceremony
Mesopotamia Egypt Greece
carved in stone on columns
hammered into golden jewels
to represent the wild roses
celebration rites of life
& death
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NaPoWriMo prompt on the meaning of a flower.
The rosette has been seen throughout antiquity in
many cultures across the world.
Wasn’t it this time
last year
that your hoya
blossomed
and in your excitement
and joy
you plucked
its single delicate
flower
to bring
to me?
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Written January 19, 1978 for Bob McAllister’s poetry class
Bainbridge Island, WA
Comments or critique from Bob:
Excitement and joy, one or other, both are too extended.
Nature – a single flower central experience.
Haiku form with one short thought or can take two
and usually does contrast.
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