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
Quiet Deliberation
the insect
and the iris
confer upon the day
Aspirations
divine
white iris
aspires to heaven
Even With
her back turned
she cannot withhold
her beauty
Woozy Beauty
a blooming tree
the blush of pink
intoxicating beauty
Catkins
the tree
inconspicuously flowers
with kitten tail blooms
Beacon
in May’s blue sky
liberty’s torch
bears magnolia’s flame
Iris Answers to All Names
undaunted by
a still cold wind
lavender flags fly
Born
into the light
joy is born
brighter for darkness’ depth
White Bloom
flower
in the night sky
April’s full moon
Hydrangea Alighted
last year’s bloom
basking in
this spring’s sunshine
Cold Bloom
outside an arctic cold
warmed by the hot pink
of a houseplant’s bloom
Flower Found
a winter rose
pink petal bark
the birch in bloom
Synapse
signals sent
of bloom and rest and bloom
dormancy too must be received
Dichotomy
without contradiction
arrived the second bloom
interpretation upheld by the past
Best Effort
when flowering
is impossible
bloom your leaves
Assertion
night held tight
in the morning’s frost
while the bloom asserted day
The Plenty
how can I miss the flowers
when every leaf’s in bloom
fall bouquets abound on trees
The Hereafter
the bloom
after the petal bloom
twice born rose
