* 53 Poems Flowers Trees Plants

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*1
Four Flowers...: The Sun arose in Morning Glory, with His Goldenrod
wanding Violet to Rose
*2
The bees' favorite couplet.. sunup brimming buttercuplet
*3
When God greengrows it's rarely in rows... awry the rye rises...unruly
the rose
*4
How awesome How sublime That out of muck and mud and slime....God
makes lemons God makes limes.
*5
The sun arrays the skies in rose as He arises and rouses the rose
*6
April is aproned with apricot blooms.
*7
They called the wind lackadaisical
but because she in freedom blows
the world will never...........lack for daisies
*8
Dawndrawn dandelions summoned by the sun... spread gold parasols
... In a later sundown .. a diaspora of dandelion down will float everywhere
*9
Little Tree, Little Tree, I wonder where you are
to thank you for the sweet pink fruit you did weave
from distant star.
*10
Each night the tree of nut out of naught knits neat nuts
*11
The bee Hector needs no lector to read him the sector
where blooms of great nectar pour fragrance in vectors
*12
Weeding, whispered the Great Spirit...is plant racism
*13
Ivy and violets vy not with the violent.
*14
Why is the rose encircled by thorns? That she not be plucked
*15
In the predawn violet... as they wake the violets... of the unsung..
birds sing...
*16
Bursting blooms of bluebonnet to the sun sing silent sonnets
A beetlebored bamboo flute.. Yonder wind plays upon it
*17
Hawaiian breadfruit... shed your Joseph's coat of many colors..
your 1000 panes of stained glass mosaic.. and become 10,000 breadfruit
trees
*18
Enpine the cone! Enoak acorn! Enpear the seed that inner
sun be freed!
*19
Held the dew the buttercup better than the butternut
*20
For every tree and wildflower He has willed the power
as He flows through all an effortless willpower
*21
Lilah's lilac'd fields Lilliputian the Lord of Love has many lilies
put in
*22
As birds helped Cinderella to dress for the dance,
the peony made her debut because of kind ants
*23
He no longer daisy petals shreds to ask if her love for him has been shed
*24
Into the daisy the sun has spun his gold
His rays have rolled into the marigold
*25
May and Mother Earth has gone under cover
hiding herself neath fields of daisy and clover
*26
Impatiens teach patience as they weave new blooms from
the sun and cloud looms
*27
The meadows are asterisked by asters. Though they
seem randomly sprayed, not a single one has gone astray.
*28
Clover lamps with their curved necks hang over the cobbles
of a London sidewalk, purple light prisms in their tiny world
*29
The glistening spider filament fluttered in the wind, spangled
with dandelion spores...a magic wand with not one
but many stars
*30
God needs no chain or buckle to link the roots of honeysuckle. Her herald fragrance
runs ahead, seamless threads delving in new beds.
*31
Like the anemone she has nary an enemy
*32
above its jade velvet carpet, the moss sends shoots
of tiny lime shooting stars
*33
From the plane, one sees cloudscript...
.. ancient stotras of Sanskrit...
*34
as he walked along, he saw a
slain dandelion with grey locks
 He blew the down of the mower victim
that there be new fluffy flower flocks
*35
The tree branches God has joined together let no one cleave asunder.
The animal limbs God has joined together let
no meatcutter cleave asunder.
*36
Because the wind rustled blooming fruit trees
they released their fresh fragrance into the breeze
*37
Only the jasmine plant has a right to string garlands of
its blooms.
*38
Why has God his dew morngift sent?
For cider, butterfly drinks,
for lilac and jasmine scent
*39
The fen way becomes a fern way, finely traced fans of
jade.. waving in the wind.
*40
The fruit tree oer the brook drops her free food into the
waters... the fish bob for apples
*41
Those depressing stormclouds grey... wand the world to green
*42
The orange tree... a green galaxy with many blazing
saffron sunorbs
*43
The morning sun does the throat of lark spur and blue the meadows
with sweetest larkspur
*44
While elsewhere the sun, universal lover,
has knit a new cover, of purplest clover, all the field over
*45
Most can from the apple tree pick spies
but only God can pluck blazing stars from the skies
*46
Like the beloved in a canoe paddled by her love is
the willow tree trailing her lacy fingers in the lake
*47
When the naturalist who defines plants as wild edibles
comes around, do the plants shiver and shake, quiver and quake?
*48
Some find peace most in the mountains. Some find peace
most at the sea. Some find peace most
in the mountains oer the sea. I find peace... only with Thee
*49
Only newfallen laurel leaves in Wilbur's laureate wreaths
for he takes only what Mother Earth gently bequeaths
*50
Within each acorn cloak are infinite oaks.
*51
Inch across the yard the bright rays of dawn
Striking magic wands cause flowers in the lawns.
*52
In the foothills of the Apennines old olive trees and grape vines...grow above the olivine.
Unseen, starlight flickers as day's luxflux melts snowflakes and spins pink blooms of phlox, blue-purple flax, flowers
goldflecked.

*53 Pansies fringe the rusting panzers

 

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