Today's Little Ditty

  Allan Mas   Where you tend a rose, my lad,  a thistle cannot grow.   – Frances Hodgson Burnett , from The Secret Garden     https://www.yo...

    Untitled (portrait of a woman holding a rose) Hamblin Studio collection, Harvard Art Museums   Transform stamen on stamen,  fill your in...

  Wendy Corniquet The main thing is to be moved,  to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.   – Auguste Rodin     "Spring" A time ...

"Visitors Welcome"                Photo: Nikki Grimes Welcome to the Poetry Friday roundup and to New Mexico, the land of...

Alexas_Fotos And then the day came when the risk to remain tight,  in a bud, was more painful than the risk it took to bloss...

"Dandelions in spring" by Virginia (Ginny) Sanderson It is looking at things for a long time  that ripens you and ...

gelai red “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”                       ― Antoine de Saint-...

POLLEN Springtime brings a mating dance For certain lush, seed-bearing plants: “Knock, knock!” one says. “A suitor’s callin’!” “Can’t...

Happy National Poetry Month! Since April's ditty challenge won't be revealed until Friday, I'm sneaking in one of my ...

BEAUTY IN DISGUISE Brown and dry, they look like weeds. But there is promise in their seeds. Wrapped up tight to take the cold— next ...

Click HERE to read this month's interview with Carole Boston Weatherford. She has challenged us to write an abecedarian poem. ...

ODE TO A HYACINTH GLASS Once crystalline now coated with the grime of rotted sheaths and root hairs shed, your new bulb's  nas...

...everything that is lost alpine glacier poppy, NPS comes back in poetry. – Sanober Khan

showy white blossoms dazzle the night gardener tender moonflower © 2016 cynthia grady. all rights reserved. Photo by feck_aRt_pos...

Amy Ludwig VanDerwater has challenged us to write poems about small things— animals or objects you see everyday and don't gi...