Flowers

Asphodel, That Greeny Flower [excerpt] by William Carlos Williams
Of asphodel, that greeny flower,
Solstice by Ellen Dudley
On the first full day of summer the sun is up
Forced Bloom by David Baker
Such pleasure one needs to make for oneself
The Gardenia by Cornelius Eady
The trouble is, you can never take
Day Lilies by Rosanna Warren
For six days, full-throated, they praised
Blur by Andrew Hudgins
Storms of perfume lift from honeysuckle,
Queen-Anne's-Lace by William Carlos Williams
Her body is not so white as
A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
O my luve's like a red, red rose
One Flower by Jack Kerouac
One flower
The White Rose by John Boyle O'Reilly
The red rose whispers of passion
Come Slowly—Eden (211) by Emily Dickinson
Come slowly—Eden
Botanica by Eve Alexandra
They are everywhere--those sunflowers with the coal heart center
Astigmatism by Amy Lowell
The Poet took his walking-stick
Sonnet 2 by Gwendolyn Bennett
Some things are very dear to me—
Nothing Stays Put by Amy Clampitt
The strange and wonderful are too much with us.
The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers by Andrew Marvell
See with what simplicity
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower by Dylan Thomas
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
The Orchid Flower by Sam Hamill
Just as I wonder
Wildwood Flower by Kathryn Stripling Byer
I hoe thawed ground
Iris by David St. John
There is a train inside this iris:
The Satyr's Heart by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Now I rest my head on the satyr's carved chest,
At Baia by H. D.
I should have thought
Last Supper by Charles Wright
I seem to have come to the end of something, but don’t know what
Epitaph X by Thomas Heise
My birthright I have traded for a petal dress
La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats
Ah, what can ail thee, wretched wight,
La Chalupa, the Boat by Jean Valentine
I am twenty
Taken Up by Charles Martin
Tired of earth, they dwindled on their hill
Herb Garden by Timothy Steele
The lizard, an exemplar of the small
Practice by Ellen Bryant Voigt
To weep unbidden, to wake
Why Regret? by Galway Kinnell
Didn't you like the way the ants help
Girl by Eve Alexandra
Be careful if you take this flower into your house
Far and Away [excerpt] by Fanny Howe
The rain falls on
Nothing But Death by Pablo Neruda
There are cemeteries that are lonely,
Nothing to Save by D. H. Lawrence
There is nothing to save, now all is lost,
In April by James Hearst
This I saw on an April day:
To My Mother Waiting on 10/01/54 by Teresa Carson
That October might have begun
The Mountain Cemetery by Edgar Bowers
With their harsh leaves old rhododendrons fill
Without a Philosophy by Elizabeth Morgan
Toward the end of this summer
Four Poems for Robin by Gary Snyder
I slept under rhododendron
Advice to a Prophet by Richard Wilbur
When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city,
a woman had placed by Anne Blonstein
a yellow rose
Still Another Day: I by Pablo Neruda
Today is that day, the day that carried
Little Lion Face by May Swenson
Little lion face
Erotic Energy by Chase Twichell
Don't tell me we're not like plants,
See How the Roses Burn! by Hafiz
See how the roses burn
The Métier of Blossoming by Denise Levertov
Fully occupied with growing--that's
Shake the Superflux! by David Lehman
I like walking on streets as black and wet as this one
The Guarded Wound by Adelaide Crapsey
If it
The Wild Honeysuckle by Philip Freneau
Fair flower, that dost so comely grow
The Violet by Jane Taylor
Down in a green and shady bed
The Dandelion by Vachel Lindsay
O dandelion, rich and haughty
To Dorothy by Marvin Bell
You are not beautiful, exactly
Bulb Planting Time by Edgar Guest
Last night he said the dead were dead
Wildflower by Stanley Plumly
Some--the ones with fish names--grow so north
Littlefoot, 19, [This is the bird hour] by Charles Wright
This is the bird hour, peony blossoms falling bigger than wren hearts
Ah! Sunflower by William Blake
Ah! sunflower, weary of time
Meister Eckhart's Sermon on Flowers and the Philosopher's Reply by J. Michael Martinez
A hollowed singularity exists in flowers
Ode to a Flower in Casarsa by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Desert flower, flowers from the garland
Follies by Carl Sandburg
Shaken
Sea Rose by H. D.
Rose, harsh rose
To Earthward by Robert Frost
Love at the lips was touch
From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee
From blossoms comes
Poem by John Gray
Geranium, houseleek, laid in oblong beds
Evening Primrose by Amy Greacen
Early adopter, familiar of vespertine
Poppies on the Wheat by Helen Hunt Jackson
Along Ancona's hills the shimmering heat,
Permanence by Denise Duhamel
The barista at the coffee shop is covered in tattoos. She says there are only two