Red

The colour you can't forget.

It sparks a fire in your eyes

that travels to your heart

and all of a sudden you want to dance.

Wait One Day

This weed-like, invasive creature

had full run of the garden

when we first moved into our house.

I have tried to contain it to one,

small but generous section of my flower beds...

Each Spring it outruns my fingers and shovel,

skipping along the top of the soil, 

racing ahead of me

to wherever it wants.

~

In just one day

I discover it in a variety of new places

In just one day

it sends out roots for hundreds more

In just one day

it's a lime-green tight-budded rocket

In one more day

it bursts into a flaming yellow geodesic dome

In one more day

it relaxes into a lemon-yellow haze.

And on that day

I have no idea why I ever wanted to pull it out.

One Rose

~ One rose says more than the dozen ~

Valentine's Day

A love story can begin anywhere.

Let it begin with you.

Happy Valentine's Day

Petal Paradise

Outside there's

white, white, white

snow

everywhere I look.

But inside my house

in the center

of a one-dollar rose

I find tropical

shades of

paradise.