Tag: flowers
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Lover’s Declaration II
Soldappled courtyard open-aired, a vast cantharus spits Rarified air courtly peacocks plume-haired share with Recalcitrant barbary apes from far Abyssinia, split-haired Palm trees hoarding hirsute spheroids, pomes with plums grappling Adorning weakling child changeling limbs of saplings Gradients made such that all drainage is tasted, without wastage And no vestige of fungible, fertile earth should…
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Lover’s Declaration I
Temple by verdant garden girdled Mellifluous dares divers thereheard Trees herded to queer shapes, none straight Pensieve benches at pleasant station, jasmine scented Roses twinned gracefully, chimeras dually-blazed Amazing escarpments and frontage Fruit like feast’s coloured bunting strung Bid wonder, with odd frond parloured Engrossing topiary of Her Father’s grand garden. Sunflower wheels orange-spoked, fire-smoking…
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CLIMES ANTIENT
Wart-warping eclandines Xanthine clump among meadowsweet Streetless plains sprawling Streakless chalkboards like scrying mirrors Crying out for scrawling adornment Galling runes gored upon house borders Like bored veldt spiders treaded well-drawn ink.
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Mr Barr of Scotland and What he has Planted
Mr Barr of Scotland Reputable planter whose hands tease blooms such rare leaves that all agree he aboves all others leagues He asks assistance seeking that upon life’s marker at death primroses planted be Favour he xanthine o’er green, that which like bee’s brighter half hued That which like a calf thought smiling and daft…
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The Gardener
Mr Foley ate lunch on our lawn He still had his gloves on When he finished up his luncheon His pick quick work of the air between him and the ground’s hair, like a policeman’s baton Clattering an insurgent’s head, station said it never happened. Naturally as a gardener he had a love for all…
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