Tag Archives: flowers

April Already 

Posted on April 1, 2023 by whimsygizmo

The earth laughs in flowers. – Ralph Waldo Emerson  It’s absurd, really. All this life and death and every breath (howled, held) in between. We’ve seen too much. We know too much. We talk too much and forget to listen.  We take our lumps (benign, and not) we try our … Continue reading →

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flowers

Posted on April 1, 2022 by whimsygizmo

she named the year wildand first thought of waves(the ocean calls her, always),but then her days her feed her soul began to fill with flowers.  she’s never thought herself a lily, so Luke 12 has always been for the birds.  but wildflowers?                       oh. she’s weaved them in her hair her … Continue reading →

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forget me not

Posted on April 22, 2018 by whimsygizmo

… pluck every petal if you must, and trust them to the breeze. but hold the stem at center near your heart, before you start again.   .. Poetic Asides April PAD Challenge, day 22. 

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swearing by flowers

Posted on April 23, 2017 by whimsygizmo

  …. since i have decided to make syntax part of the fabric of my kisses, misses, bliss, i am far happier here ………….(each petal a tear.)   .. Prompted by toads. You’ll find the poem that inspired it here.  … Continue reading →

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insolent daisies

Posted on April 26, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. after, she rips the heads off of each and every one of them, with their little white ……..( l i e s ) petals; opts instead for dandelion’s breeze-blown   r   o   a   r.   .. … Continue reading →

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The Book of Wild {Flowers}

Posted on April 12, 2016 by whimsygizmo

Patrons of the magnolia, our hips are used in every maple-sugar camp, harbingers of good luck , bustling with hum; make hues of autumn by simple division. Serve as sun ………..-flowers. They have learned the arts of roguery, the long … Continue reading →

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scribbled daisies in delicate margins

Posted on April 8, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. swearing by all flowers, she spins hours making eyelashes of petaled promises, lovesmelovesmeknot chains of whim. give her a peri -winkle pen and a bit of white space, and she’ll ……………(erase) trace her own heart along veined vines, and … Continue reading →

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swear by all flowers

Posted on April 8, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. , love me, …love ……..me …..not, but petal me something more than this one falling thought caught by wayward ………………be(e). .. for NaPoWriMo, day 8. 

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Trust Me

Posted on October 28, 2015 by whimsygizmo

.. Shed your shoulds, shrug your shoulders and smile at that brilliant sun. Step on cracks, crack open the sky, run with scissors, cut a …………rug. Don’t just smell the flowers, Love. Dig your fingers into …..feral soil, and grow … Continue reading →

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Lady, I swear.

Posted on October 16, 2015 by whimsygizmo

It’s raining flowers. It’s raining flowers. The world will never be the same. The world will never be the same. Flowers will never be the world. The same: It’s raining. I am the walrus. I am the walrus. This too, … Continue reading →

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