at the flower’s
request
love and affection
Thistle
purple prickers
gentle to
the bees
Social Call
dropping in
to share
the garden’s news
Daisies
humble daisies
holding up the world
with steadfast cheerfulness
Reassurance
tiny blue flowers
joy enough
to dispel doubt
Visit
sit awhile
and listen to
the flowers conversation
Sweet William’s Courtship
bouquet
in a bloom
perennial suitor
All In
peony blooms
with her
whole self
Full Bloom
raindrops
on innocence
brief tender days
Finale
last ruffle
a final flourish
iris ending
Together
side by side
synchronicity
of bending blooms
Hours of the Flower
blood root’s dawn
answers to the sun’s call
blood root’s noon
All Of It
instruction of
the maple bloom
reach out for everything
Unrestrained
wild abandon
a wilderness
of colors
Beauty’s Labor
dirty petals
gathered round
protecting color
Feats of Beauty
despite
cold facts
a bloom
Merest Hint of Color
clouds whispered
their expectations
of the blooming world
Collection
in black and white
the billowing bloom
a leafing and blossom of snow
My Darling Rose
wild grows
my perennial love
her precious winter bloom
What the Flowers Taught the Snow
aster’s blooms
each individualized
inspiration to snowflakes
Enthusiasm
bloom, bloom, bloom
the boundless energy
of color
Sun Gazer
unblinking
the most tender of petals
will reveal all
More Than She Seems
deception
of fragility
begonia in the fall
Dahlia in the Daises
bright blooms
autumn afternoons
departing soon
Goodwill
tender pink
the wild bloom
benevolence of simplicity
Many in One
tiny buds
open into
the bloom of community
Aspiration
rock and lichen
give rise to
new life’s watch tower
In Love
red poppies
in dappled light
kisses from the garden
The Other Sister
mallow’s
flashy sister
hibiscus unabashed hedonist
Roadside Greetings
joyful
shouts of color
to cheer the passersby
