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Tag: stamen

Posted on September 4, 2025August 31, 2025

The Mesosphere Nearby

inside the mallow’s bloom
a kind of shooting star
beauty streaking past

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Posted on January 26, 2025January 20, 2025

Amarylis, Amarylis

generous
benefactress
of January bloom

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Posted on July 28, 2024July 14, 2024

Beauty Of The Spent Bloom

grace remained
even after
your youth departed

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Posted on July 19, 2024July 12, 2024

Head Turner

columbine
in profile
no bad side

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Posted on July 16, 2024July 12, 2024

Vixen

smoldering
red lipped lily
pursed for a kiss

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Posted on October 12, 2023October 1, 2023

My Purple Satellite

circling the the garden
receiving sun
sending color

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Posted on August 24, 2023August 13, 2023

Nearer To Thee

the closer I look
the more my view expands
and resonates with memories

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Posted on August 11, 2023July 30, 2023

Evolution Of A Bloom

opened and yet closed
the very center
still to reveal all its complexities

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Posted on July 22, 2023July 15, 2023

A Heart Can Hold Everything

shadow bird
perched inside
the lily’s heart

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Posted on March 12, 2023March 6, 2023

Amarylis Did

with her stamens
she motioned me closer
come admire my details

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Posted on July 16, 2021July 13, 2021

Rocketship

speeding towards
the setting of seed
destination perpetuity

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Posted on June 17, 2021June 11, 2021

Worth

the spent rose
her value in beauty
undiminished

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Posted on July 31, 2020July 26, 2020

The Petunia Looking Back

deep inside
a piercing
green eye

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Posted on January 4, 2020January 1, 2020

Form’s Fragility


delicate intricacy
each part
depending on the next

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Posted on February 14, 2019February 11, 2019

She Was My Valentine


one more
amaryllis
kiss

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Posted on January 31, 2019January 29, 2019

Subzero Heat


siren’s call
across the frozen landscape
red hot red

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Posted on August 28, 2017August 28, 2017

Look


two bright poppy eyes
one wears shade
mascara-ed stamens

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Posted on August 19, 2017August 14, 2017

Flowering Sundial


time
is measured
by the lily’s shadow

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Posted on June 26, 2017June 25, 2017

Purple Reign


purple crown
the sovereign rule
of poppy’s bloom

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Posted on July 27, 2016July 19, 2016

First

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among the many
only one is
first to bloom

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Posted on September 12, 2015September 5, 2015

See Sedum

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shaboom
she blooms
succinct and succulent

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Posted on July 19, 2015July 18, 2015

Hester’s Pride

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amaryllis, amaryllis
scarlet maiden
stakes her claim

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