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Tag: wildflowers

Posted on September 20, 2025September 15, 2025

Dreaming Goldenrod

sunshine to be picked
and put in a vase
sunshine a brush
painting the water

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Posted on August 30, 2025August 22, 2025

Why The Meadow Blooms

for the bees
and the earth
and her own pleasure

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Posted on August 20, 2025August 15, 2025

Pollen Painted

in the high heat
August fields fill with
goldenrod and dry grass

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Posted on July 12, 2025July 4, 2025

Painterly Spirit

splashes of color
across the lawn
Pollock’s spirit in the garden

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Posted on June 21, 2025June 16, 2025

The Way To Oz

buttercups
paved my
yellow brick road

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Posted on June 5, 2025May 31, 2025

Quaker Ladies

they gathered
in abundance
to worship spring

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Posted on September 1, 2024August 26, 2024

Mist Rise On The Meadow

the curtain rises
on the play
of another summer day

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Posted on August 10, 2024August 3, 2024

By The Barn

white foam
of the wildflowers’ wave
splashing on the meadow


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Posted on August 5, 2024July 25, 2024

The Queen And Her Constituents

without the wild
and abundant
nothing to reign over

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Posted on June 20, 2024June 16, 2024

A House In The Lupine

the bluebirds know
beauty, space and quiet
make a house a home

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Posted on September 11, 2023September 3, 2023

Old School

naked square bales
no plastic marshmallows here
the only white is wildflower bloom

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Posted on August 23, 2023August 23, 2023

The Queen’s Heron

across the water
white feathers converse
with white flowers

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Posted on August 16, 2023August 6, 2023

The Romantics

they meet each dawn
in the flowering meadow
just to gaze into each other’s eyes

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Posted on August 8, 2023July 30, 2023

In The Flowering Meadow

in tandem
the soft caress of blossoms
the hum of insects busy
doing the work of the world

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Posted on December 17, 2022December 10, 2022

Winter’s Coat

flowers and grass
pattern the meadow
the earth wears a fur of flora

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Posted on December 4, 2022November 28, 2022

Invisible Work

birds and seeds
plot the creation
of spring

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Posted on August 20, 2022August 7, 2022

The Other B’s Of The Meadow

buttercup, bachelor buttons
and barbed wire
bright, blue, biting

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Posted on July 22, 2022July 16, 2022

Full Sun

the meadow
bleached by light
wild blooms carry on

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Posted on March 11, 2022March 9, 2022

We Hold Each Other Up

remains of summer blooms
provide the structure for
blossoms made of snow

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Posted on December 4, 2021December 4, 2021

A Sort Of Snow Flower

seed wings
as snow flakes
goldenrod in a flurry

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Posted on November 28, 2021November 22, 2021

Terraced Textures

each level
luxuriating
in light

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Posted on September 15, 2021September 8, 2021

Following Instructions

mother said
stay off the road
hide if trouble comes

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Posted on August 28, 2021August 23, 2021

High Summer

the sun at her zenith
the shade deepens
all things ever balancing

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Posted on August 19, 2021August 13, 2021

Beyond Abundance

in the flowering meadow
even the path
insists on blooming

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Posted on July 21, 2021July 16, 2021

On And On And On

in a cosmos
of flowers
timelessness found

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Posted on June 28, 2021June 27, 2021

Sunbeam

a stream
of flowering sunshine
flowed across the meadow

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Posted on October 1, 2020September 28, 2020

Autumn In The Meadow

the light
more precious
as darkness nears

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Posted on August 31, 2020August 30, 2020

Feverfew By The Fence

the second bloom
an insurance
of immortality

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Posted on August 8, 2020August 1, 2020

The Way


gentle path
through the flowering field
the road to happy destiny

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Posted on December 1, 2019November 30, 2019

Goldenrod Gone By


in the cold
old blooms
imitate snow

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