10 Replies to “The Gladiola”

  1. Deborah J. Brasket – Paso Robles, California – Writing the kinds of novels I love to read. My family saga When Things Go Missing was published in September 2025. This Sea Within, a political thriller and coming of age novel, was published in June 2026. I'm now working on the second book in the Sea Within series. Visit me at deborahjbrasket.com for more information and to read my blog, where I write about art, literature, nature, and sailing around the world.
    deborahbrasket says:

    Beautiful! Love your haiku too, so fun and fitting.

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  2. Beautiful. I remember very little poetry, but one by Francis Thompson comes to mind when I read this… they seem similarly inspired:
    “The Poppy”…
    “Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare,
    And left the flushed print in a poppy there:
    Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came,
    And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame.

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  5. judybarton – Still in love, complicated, almost stupid, interested to recognize herself. "Up to the age of eighteen years old everybody writes poems; after, only two categories of people may continue to do it: poets and idiots." (Benedetto Croce). Obviously I do not consider myself a poet.
    judybarton says:

    So gorgeus…and sexy too (if I may say it) 😀

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