A Line of #Chartreuse Blooms – v2

Chartreuse blooms, living for a week at most,
maple trees lining Maple Street
little bells, green lilies of the valleys,
bright yellow-green buttercups
bouquets shining in the April-May sun.
 
Soon they will fall and the supple new leaves
will stiffen, turgid with Kelly green, darker hues
But for a regal moment, even the trees bloom
in vivid bright colors, awakening,
a line of chartreuse blooms alive.
 
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edited April 7, 2022

A Line of Chartreuse Blooms – v2

 

edited April 7, 2022

Little White Bells – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/04/little-white-bells-lanterns-hanging.html

edited April 6, 2022

Gathering her mother’s lilies – v3

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/04/gathering-her-mothers-lilies-v3.html

edited April 6, 2022

Gathering her mother’s lilies – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/04/gathering-her-mothers-lilies-v2.html

April 6, 2022

Gathering Her mother’s lilies

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/04/gathering-her-mothers-lilies.html

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October 9, 2010

In Their Fragrance and Their Colors

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2010/10/in-their-fragrance-and-their-colors.html

written as birthday gift

for my mother, Patricia Cobb,

on the occasion of her 75th birthday

October 9, 2010

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February 12, 2010

On the side of their house

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2010/02/on-side-of-their-house.html

Mid to later in the 1960’s

15 Bates Street, Westfield, MA

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May 21, 2009

Little White Bells

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2009/05/little-white-bells.html

corner of Prospect and Broadway,

Suncook, NH

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May 1, 2008

A Line of Chartreuse Blooms

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2008/05/line-of-chartreuse-blooms.html

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May 22, 2005

Lily of the Valley – 1999

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2005/08/lily-of-valley-1999.html

 

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