garden in the woods
a birdbath to feed
hawk and deer
Welcome Wild Neighbors
Amidst Blossoms
easy to miss
the thrum and shimmer
darting from bloom to bloom
They Are Dancing
from the bench
we watch
firefly flowers
Listen Closely
that whispering
in the grass
the mums conspiracy of beauty
Wild Strawberries
sugared
with frost
before the berries
Wild Abandon
scarlet vixen in the woods
kisses scattered
across the landscape
Berry Cacophony
bright and bursting
rambling scrambling her colors
across the landscape
Bellicose Beauty
running wild
with the grapes
scheming bittersweet
Untamed Aster
such a freedom of flowering
her delicacy
beguiles her toughness
In Sunlight Milkweed Seed Readies For Flight
from order
evolves the chaos
of creation
Wild
color
and form
undomesticated
Trinity In The Vetch
sturdy, cheerful, simplicity
such grows in wild abandon
self-seeding beauty
Lantern In The Woods
a welcome
for wanderers
in the wild
Mountain Lupin
purple blue
she-wolf
running wild
Tangle Of Time
all
the past’s moments
entwined
Companions
wild beauty
on the fence rail
a compliment to flowering weeds
Kitchen Window Sill
dirty dishes
blessed by
wild delphinium
Unrestrained
wild abandon
a wilderness
of colors
Goodwill
tender pink
the wild bloom
benevolence of simplicity
Rose Bramble
delicate beauties
defended
by a century’s thorns
Every Opportunity
nature is unafraid
of complicated truths
embracing every opportunity of knowing
Wild Strawberries
with berries gone
leaves reminiscence
still coloring the lawn
Remembered
forget me not
the gentlest reminder of
the enormity of tiny pleasures
Autumn’s Paint
colors run
in the wild
wet woods
Suggestion
wild geranium
suggests to the trees
the new season of colors has begun
Midwife
forest maiden
mother’s helper
harbinger of spring
Exodus
delicate departure
wild aster
in seed
Cleome
a bit of a hussy
floozy and bossy
throwing herself everywhere
Feral Flowers
untamed joy
a wild flower’s
bloom
Triplets
Tamed by beauty
three wild aster
bloom as one.