the garden bed
a candy store
offering lavendar lollipops
Perfection Realized
to see her
cup the sunlight
in her perfect petals
Azalea Ablaze
taking
her moment
in summer’s spotlight
Borrowed View
flowering frame
a passageway
into the garden’s delights
Coleus Abstraction
flowering leaves
the dizzying combination
of chartreuse and pink
Those Two Iris
they leaned
into each other
as lovers often do
Bronze
a sculpture
grown by June
red metal
They Meet Each Spring
enduring rock
perpetual phlox
kindreds
Painted Trillium
rare beauty
she blooms mostly
for the forest’s delight
Friendly Conversation
greetings
from the tulips
as the violets wander by
In The Flowering Of Trees
the world
divine
blossom time
Nature’s Nuptial
garden wedding
in June
bridal veil blooms
And Your Heart Skips A Beat
sweet as a kiss
upon your cheek
pink tulip’s bloom
Unselfconscious
daffodil’s humility
amplifies
her magnificence
Rhapsody of Yellow and Red
primerose bloom
joy
made tangilbe
Flowering Blue Sky
a petaled
hallelujah
exalting sunny days
Exuberance
behold
the enormity
of tiny things
Into The Unknown
surrender
with complete abandon
to life’s plan
A Subtle Flourish
above
last year’s leaves
a complexity of delight
So Succulent A Rose
all growth
is a flowering
this is joy
Winter Orchard
holding space
for
flower and fruit
She Was My Valentine
one more
amaryllis
kiss
Gradation
the subtle shift
from hue to hue
comes quietly like insight
The Friendship Plant Abloom
spot
of brightness
in a winter day
Monarch In The Wind
held
to the earth
by a blossom
Essence
the center holds
so many
reverberations of self
Decay’s Bouquet
stump blooms
a wood rose
flowering of fungi
Small Packages
each bundle
of color
awaits its unwrapping
Above and Below
twice seen
revelation
of self
Tiger Lily
big cat
of the flower bed
wearing leopard spots