A Line of Chartreuse Blooms – v3

Chartreuse blooms, living for a week at most,
flowers of the maple trees lining Maple Street
little bells, green lilies of the valleys,
bright yellow-green buttercups on the branches,
striving, yearning skyward, joyful, emotive,
bouquets, bursting, shining in the April-May sun…
 
Soon they will fall away and the supple new leaves
will stiffen, turgid like butterfly wings,
with Kelly green, darker hues of summer
But for a regal moment, even the trees bloom
in vivid bright colors, awakening,
a line of chartreuse blooms alive, glowing....
 
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Edited May 29, 2024
A Line of Chartreuse Blooms – v3
 
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
&
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
&
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
&
May 21, 2009
Little White Bells
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2009/05/little-white-bells.html
corner of Prospect and Broadway,
Suncook, NH
&
May 1, 2008
A Line of Chartreuse Blooms
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2008/05/line-of-chartreuse-blooms.html
&
May 22, 2005
Lily of the Valley – 1999
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2005/08/lily-of-valley-1999.html
 
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