Tag: garden
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Delighting in flowers
Light foreboring columbines Mother in law’s tongue sharp, marbled Thorned knight the milk thistle A son of cursed Lambton. Stately elms housing owls Brocaded with striations Big pink bouquets of Stinking Billies For trenchant bully Orange William. In pale June Maylings still maere Gaunt and bare, as yet hairless In stolid boughs repose black bores…
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Garden healers
Loment doctor Chaff-flower Devil’s horsewhip lopped Makes cough’s curative For colds sneezewort Celandine for warts.
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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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Spiders Dreams
My father made a pleasure dome in some mad Victorian fervour He began with plants and stones until it extended further and further Beyond crude palisades of hearty piled stones Near a pansy-shored meander, where a spider makes his home. ‘Tween mossy stone and cloudy bank in a web of gossamer spun This spider sits…
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