Poets and artists published in Spectrum Online Edition: Flower Parade are invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, March 18th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Friday, March 10, 2023

Mary Mayer Shapiro

Beauty Pageant


The judges sat in a row

Looking over the contestants

The decisions were hard

There were no flaws among them


The capillary action

Watered the plants

Keeping them

Healthy


The stems were

Sturdy

Holding the flowers

Vertical

The colors varied in hues

Appear the same

In each plant

To the naked eye


The shapes varied

According to

The type of

Flower


Each flower had their own

Personalities

Loving, welcoming

Affection it, fickle


The judges could not pick

A single winner

They were all

A ten


A judgment had

To be made

They came to a conclusion

The decision was difficult


They all came

In first

They were voted as

A bouquet of flowers




Be Careful What You Wish For


The little egg was orphan

On a leaf in a garden of flowers

It laid there during the winter Months


Come spring it hatched

Saw itself as a segmented worm With three pairs of true legs

Six pairs of pro legs

With claws to climb the stems

And ate the leaves


Was able to move in a wave like Pattern from back to front

With no bones

Only muscles


With twelve eyes

Arranged in a semi circle

It looked around and saw

Comely flowers


With a sigh

The caterpillar wish that

When grown his appearance Changed and be beautiful


In time the caterpillar

Spun a cocoon

Died inside

With stem cells recreated


Metamorphism took place Emerged as a butterfly

The Monarch was awed

By the transformation


Looked for a mate

Eggs were laid

On stems and leaves

Destiny completed


As the Monarch

ego inflated

A net came over

The captured Monarch

Was place in a frame

Covered with glass

To be admired

Forever


Be careful

What you

Wish

For




Flower Garden


The language of flowers

Need not be oral

They represent meanings

Without words.


The entrance to the garden

Lattice trellis was surrounded

By Starwort and Wisteria

Welcoming all


Going down the path are flowers signifying love

Jasmine, Gardenia Carnation, Red Roses, Myrtle Nasturtium, Tulip


The childhood flowers of

White Lilly, Buttercup, Primroses

brings tranquility of Stonecrop with remembrance of Rosemary

Periwinkle tender recollections


The Quince of temptation

The courage of Protea

The good cheer of Poinsettia

Line the path


On exiting the appeals

Of For-get-me not

Farewell from Michaelmas Daisy

Think of me pleads the Pansy

Just outside the exit

Is your destiny

A reminder from the

Camellia


The language of flowers

Need not be oral

They represent meanings

Without words.


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