BEAUTY IN THE WILD In the mountains and the meadows There’s beauty to be seen, And even in the fringe of woods Bright colors mix with green. There is lupine and arbutus Growing near the trees, With some yellow-centered daisies Swaying in the breeze. Abundant scarlet paintbrush, Violets dressed in blue, There’s columbine and trillium, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘flowers’
Homage to nature
Posted in Inspirational, Nature, Poetry, Rhyming, tagged beauty, columbine, coneflower, flowers, stars, sunflowers, trees, woods on Wednesday,July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I bow my head in thanks
Posted in ecology, Inspirational, Nature, Poetry, Rhyming, tagged columbine, coneflowers, daisies, daylilies, flowers, garden, Indian paintbrush, lobelia, lupine, primrose, trillium on Sunday,June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BEYOND MY WINDOW I have a colorful garden With flowers in great array Wild beauties in rich profusion So vibrant in display I didn’t plant a single thing God placed them where they grow Just beyond my pristine lawn So I enjoy their show There is lupine and pink primrose And beautiful shooting stars There [...]
Summer fare
Posted in Inspirational, Nature, Poetry, Rhyming, tagged birds, flowers, frogs, melodies, perfume, rain, seasons, summer, sun on Tuesday,June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A SEASON’S SWEET CARESS Summer flaunts its mighty splendor As it paints the heavens red – Polishes up the diamond skies And full moon overhead. Then morning opens up its eyes At the sun’s first golden ray The world awakens, to enjoy A marvelous summer day It scatters flowers everywhere Across earth’s counterpane, And ripples [...]
As the earth awakens
Posted in love, Nature, Poetry, Rhyming, tagged Black-eyed Susan, blooms, breast, corsage, earth, flowers, romance, Sweet William on Tuesday,June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SPRING FANTASY The earth is ready for her Prom. Awakened from her rest, With a field full of flowers As a corsage on her breast. There’s romance blooming in that field, And flirting’s taking place . . . Sweet William’s charmed by countless winks From Black-eyed Susan’s face. 7/29/05 Phyllis DeWitt-VanVleck
Sweet Perfume
Posted in Memories, Mothers, Poetry, Rhyming, tagged flowers, garden, perfume, seed, shovel, spade on Sunday,May 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
HER GARDEN Work in her garden every day To her was just like child’s play Shallow rows to hold the seed Paper pads on which she kneed Spade and shovel by her side A length of string as her guide Flats of flowers, packs of seeds And things to battle all the weeds She loved [...]
A four act play
Posted in Nature, Poetry, Rhyming, tagged act one, autumn pageantry, awakening spring, curtain, ermine blankets, final curtain, flowers, play, rainbows, seasons on Tuesday,April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
NATURE’S AWESOME PRODUCTION Green shoots and delicate blossoms Make “Awakening Spring” , Act One An expectant time in seasons For new life has just begun Act Two is “Summer’s Balmy Days”, With robes of emerald green Sun kissing beautiful flowers Rainbows completing the scene The curtain opens on [...]
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