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The Art of Listening - by Veronica Aaronson

{ Poem }

Hunt out wild flowers,
reach out, not to pick them
but as an offer of intimacy.

Early conversations - by Christine De Luca

{ Poem }

When I used to shake a branch to douse your pram with blossom, was it a kind of caim, a ring of blessednessI tried to wrap you in?  You chuckledtill your white curls shivered.  Or when I lifted you right up close to the fragrant rose, was it to inoculate against all that iscrass and coarse?  You pulledand crushed […]

The Easter Flower - by Festus Claudius McKay

{ Poem }

And many thought it was a sacred sign,
And some called it the resurrection flower;
And I, a pagan, worshiped at its shrine,
Yielding my heart unto its perfumed power.

Dandelions - by Gerda Stevenson

{ Poem }

You clamour at my retina, a cascade / of cartwheels, demanding paint / from my palette

Paper Flowers - by Cheryl Follon

{ Poem }

Just when the hash smokers are going out to shoplift Scotch eggs …

Flowers - by Judith Taylor

{ Poem }

I wanted to write an elegy
/ without flowers. I know they’re a requirement…

Three Awkward Ears - by Denise Riley

{ Poem }

ice-burned tongues / clump into celestine’s / eye-blue spar

Garland for the Winter Solstice - by Ruthven Todd

{ Poem }

Now, perched on this polar height
When all sap lies quiet and does not climb,
When all seems dead, I cultivate
The wild garden rioting in my memory

Blossom - by Kathleen Jamie

{ Poem }

There’s this life and no hereafter –
/ I’m sure of that
/ but still…

This Life - by Elizabeth Burns

{ Poem }

Each life echoing, acting out these myths: / going into darkness, re-emerging, wounds / and griefs healed over.
/ …

Keeping Orchids - by Jackie Kay

{ Poem }

The orchids my mother gave me when we first met
/ are still alive, twelve days later. Although
/
/ some of the buds remain…

Another Spring - by Christina Rossetti

{ Poem }

If I might see another Spring,
/ I’d not plant summer flowers and wait:
/ I’d have my…

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