in love again –
the earth brings forth flora
in fantastic numbers

Jack Galmitz - USA

castle ruin
flora explodes
from every crevice

David Serjeant - UK

Male parts and female parts am I a flower

Jack Galmitz - USA

milkweed field
the girl with a light step
palms the monarch

Paul Cordeiro - USA

open mind:
my sweetheart wears in her hair
a recycled gourd

Vasile Moldovan - Romania

in my glad rags
I let the Universe
Expand

Patrick Sweeney - Japan

samaras     twirl     to earth –
    I escape a whirlwind
                                    romance

Andrew Shattuck McBride - USA

after all these years
bent with longing
I assume
the half lotus

Owen Bullock - New Zealand

      variegated tulips
the receptionist's smile
      equally forced

Helen Buckingham - UK

rising
with the light
lilac breeze

Ann K. Schwader - USA

lilacs in bloom
the early morning purr
of a hand mower

Susan Constable - Canada

fragrant breeze. . .
father takes me into
his childhood mind

Ramesh Anand - Malaysia

childhood memories –
pointing out the cuckoo-spit
on mother's roses

Claire Everett - UK

blueberry blossoms
the wind carries
its own music

G.R. LeBlanc - Canada

spring gusts. . .
the thrum of a banjo
with broken strings

Ernesto Pangilinan Santiago - The Philippines