With the long weekend of August 2014 now over and the 'back-to-school' sale flyers making me long to be a student once again, there are still flowers blooming and, unfortunately, the odd tick attaching itself to Hayley dog. Flowers and ticks are the subjects of the two poems which follow:
Strength
Rudbeckia fulgida
Protecting your flowers
Healthy, vigorous
You don't need my attention.
The deer respect you
Leave you alone.
You ignore the drought
Thrive in poor soil
Disease and insects don't trouble you.
A splash of warm late-summer colour
Extending into fall.
You mock the light frost
Laugh at the early snowfall.
Strong, centered, spreading
You persevere.
Black-eyed Susans.
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Tick(ed) Off
How dare you think
That you could burrow into my golden girl
With your tentacles
You blood-sucking arachnid.
Strength
Rudbeckia fulgida
Protecting your flowers
Healthy, vigorous
You don't need my attention.
The deer respect you
Leave you alone.
You ignore the drought
Thrive in poor soil
Disease and insects don't trouble you.
A splash of warm late-summer colour
Extending into fall.
You mock the light frost
Laugh at the early snowfall.
Strong, centered, spreading
You persevere.
Black-eyed Susans.
****************************************************************************************
Tick(ed) Off
How dare you think
That you could burrow into my golden girl
With your tentacles
You blood-sucking arachnid.
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