the nourishment
of beauty
soul food
Intensity
not to be outdone
by turning maples
the stoplight dahlia
Like Lovers Parting
monarch and flower
kissed by the sun
one final embrace
before the journey’s begun
Frost Dodger
as summer wanes
each flower more precious
for the precariousness
Double Bloom
within the hibiscus
dianthus
also blooms
Radiating Hope
a bright light
lifting us
up
In These Times
delicate bloom
in a vast sky
reassures
Contemplating Life
a good companion
is the flower
full of quiet and complexities
Feverfew By The Fence
the second bloom
an insurance
of immortality
Morning Glory
I fly in your sky
and swim in
your ocean of blue
Priscilla
being both
demure and extravagant
she beguiles
Dizzy
spinning color
in the garden
dizzy with glee
Culmination
an explosion of orange
sending curves into curls
and polka dots popping
A Complexity Of Symmetry
circle upon circle
the center
echos the edges
Pink Moon
made of cotton candy
glowing all the day
sweet bella luna
Between And Beside
amidst the prickly places
filaments of tenderness
keep calling for touch
Ricochet Of Loveliness
phlox white clouds
the sky echos
the garden’s bloom
Greeting Everything Where It Is
she opened
her beauty
in every direction
The Petunia Looking Back
deep inside
a piercing
green eye
Exceeding Expectations
deemed ordinary
delivering a spectacle
oh the muchness of marigolds
Tender Hearted
amidst her silver foliage
fine and fancy hearts
on the garden’s sleeve
Abstraction
her beauty
deconstructed
potent as ever
Surely Shirley The Poppy
all ruffles and fringe
purple and orange
pizzaz
The Curvature Of Color
colors
shifted and changed
as they traversed the iris’s curves
The Delicate Alongside The Enduring
each polygon
delivers
petals against granite
Petaled Pinwheel
whirligig
which turns
without turning
Vibrant As The Sun
it burst into being
and brought me
with it
She Wears
freckles
with which
to charm the bees
Whimsey
a bauble of tiny blooms
an effervescence
of delight
Lavender Blue
triptych of iris
the garden’s
altarpiece