retrieved from the garden in late October
now on January’s window sill
defying winter with your growth and green
Dear Dusty Miller
Flowers In Lamp Light
cosmos defiant hoorah
as if to prove
the potency of bloom
Luminous Blue Spire
tall stalk
laden with delicate blooms
defying wind and rain
Performance Artists
raindrop acrobats
balance on the petal edge
defiant of gravity
Intensity
defiant of the cold
the tulip
passionate with color
Defying The Elements
sweet hydrangea
her summer bloom lingers
on a honeycomb of petals
Defiance
blazing colors
defy the drought
and celebrate the heat
Defiance
vixen
in the window
refuses winter’s grey
Ruffled
outside winter approaches
while defiant violet
flaunts her ruffled skirts
Bandit
defiant
the masked bandit
pillages the crabapples
Undaunted
by winter’s demands
evergreens refuse to release color or needles
and stand in defiant contrast to the ever greying landscape.