65 Flower Poems Iii Poem by Saiom Shriver

REGALIA

A bursting regalia
of blooming azalea
God has enkindled
for themselves, the bees,
and to regale you

LADY BIRD'S COWSLIPS

Painters love flowers for their hues.
Perfumers love blossoms for their smells.
Bees other bees of bloom nectar tell.
Lady Bird loves cowslips for themselves.

Wherever she has trod in the dell
flowertrails to Mother Earth befell
.. daffodils and larkspur and bluebells
daisies and trilliums and cockleshells


FORSYTHIA

For His Cynthia
God made Forsythia
.. she's first to bloom
in the spring
last to drop
her leaves
in the fall
.. the gold
drawn from straight
from her
sunny soul


PATIENT IMPATIENS

Impatiens
are often patient
.. waiting for
a brighter day.
Impatiens
blooms
woven on the
sun's vast looms
not deterred
by cloudy gloom
uplifted by the
wind's soft brooms

PHYLLIS

Gladiolas are glorious
especially... Gloria's
but
I grow these lilies
to delight My Phyllis
(said God)

DOGWOOD

The sun wooed
the spring woods
Everywhere pink
and white dogwood

Teacher of love,
the dog, wooed
the human..
for give himself
entire,
the dog would.



FORSYTHE

God's omniscience
God's universal foresight
wills every bell of forsythia
.. every cell of Forsythe.


PARACHUTES

The wind
releases
dandelion parachutes
They alight
and spark
a golden
pair of shoots


FLOWERS OF FRANCE

Ants help peonies
release their incense
Lilacs the wet westwind
do
scent
1000 blooms
1000 perfumes
each heaven sent
.. and the flowers of France
have fragrant frankincense

WALLFLOWERS

No more broken hearted
wallflowers passed by
No more plants called
weeds.. torn out by their roots

HYDRANGEAS

Sometimes confessor priests
or flowers speak..
Hydrangeas change their hue
From the acid in the soil
They change from pink to blue.

(to Dave Baldacci who spoke
of a row of pink hydrangeas,
1 plant of which had turned
to blue... investigators dug
and find a gun there)
(Most who kill are 1 time killers..
but when serial murder occurs,
the ethics become more weighted)


BLOOMING HEART

The meadows and woods in her
heart are

samara starred,
aster spangled,
daisy sprinkled
violet spattered,
buttercup strewn,
trillium studded,
bluebell splashed
dandelion splattered,

poppy peppered
cowslip stippled
phlox flagged
tiger lily freckled
chicory flecked
mayapple dappled
dandelion dotted
spirea speckled

SPIREA

Spirea petals
fall while a spiral of
dandelion spores
to the sky aspires

CARNATION CORONATION


God's creation:
The incarnation
of pink carnations...
.crowning circle of bees
completes coronation

ROSE OF AKRON

Through the pickets
peep the pink petunias
the purple pansies
and peonies
.. their roots are fixed
by their loved ones
but their fragrance
and light
soar to the stars

**

CLEAVE NOT THE CLOVER VEIL

A clover veil..
violets the vale
neith skies cloudclad
or when ultraviolet
sun prevails.

(to Elissa S taken to safety by one of the Kent State Four.. just before he died)

LILY PAD PLATES

lily pad plates... spheres with rims.. raindrops fill
them to the brim
*
DAYGOLD NIGHTPURPLE

Wildflower clusters of little daisies, purple.. with gold
centers.. during the day the yellow of the sun.. at night
purple petals infold to cover their lemon hue..

JASMINE SCENT

The South Wind
has for the evening
donned
jasmine scent.


GOLDENROD JEWEL


The bee hung upside down
to clasp
the goldenrod jewel
beneath the hasp
.. and therefore found
chalice not empty
but half full

He swung on the goldenrod's heavy arc
... his striped curl
matching her golden curl

POSIE DEFENSE

One said that
the posies
were sham posers
.. ignored him
the posies
and kept on posie-ing.
This is a defense
of posies along the fence.

FERNS' SHY LOCKS

Ferns' shy locks
framed by shamrocks
.. may he tread there
softly..
oh aristocrat pawn Sherlock

IRIS UNPERPLEXED

It does not
violet iris perplex
that the sun continues
iris petals to purplex.

NECTAR IN THE CHALICED BLOOMS

There are lilac honey,
rose honey
and honey from daffodils
There is honey from
lilies of the valley
and from apple blossoms
on the hill.
But whether it is honey
from honeysuckle
or from peach and pear trees
any honey eaten by humans
is a theft from the bees.

SUNFLOWERS SWIRLING

The sunflowers are sundials
swiveling, swirling
while in the dell, daffodils
His light do spin and spill

FALLEN STAR ABOUT TO RISE

today i saw a single lemon yellow tiger lily..
a fallen star lying in the green...
but nearby... are constellations of orange ones.. waiting to burst
into the sun and shine her into cheer

STILEBE

staring at stands of wild stilebe
made one think of C & B Kilby
bloom feathers..
like bridges between thought and deed
.. whatever they wish for
surely
.. some day will be

LOOSESTRIFE

Loosestrife was slain
because
with her so fast pink loom
she spins pink blooms
as she stitches
land out of water
and pure fire.
But to save the bees,
more are saving her
the water purifier.

*

ASTERS

The meadows' Master, the pastures' pastor
has banned mowers to asterisk the fields with asters.

KARCH

The gold of the rainbow's rarified arch
The gold of the daffodils of March.
The gold of October's
leaves of larch.
are nothing to the gold
in the heart of Richard Karch.

NOT BLUEBELL BLOSSOMS

White blossoms give way to sweet blackberries.
Pink blooms blow away and lo are scarlet cherries.
Bright orange flowers replaced by purple prickly pearies.
Not blue bell blossoms but white bell clusters become
blueberries.

ANGELS

Because of them fewer cows will trip
on feedlot muck or slippery cowslip

(to Farm Sanctuary)