Cycle

Close up photo of a brilliant red rose, with two red rose buds in the background.

My garden rose blooms,
to keep brilliant bees buzzing—
somewhere a heart bleeds.

Almost

Close up photo of the bud of a grevillea flower.

Flowers on the edge:
waiting to burst into song,
dancing into spring.

Bowed

Close up photo of a rose, facing downwards.

Head bowed solemnly;
an existential crisis
overwhelms a rose.

Sprung

Close up photo of raindrops on a rose leaf, with a pink rose in the background.

Raindrops on roses,
clearing skies, shiny rainbows,
pollen flies; spring-ing.

Headbob

Photo of an old and peach tree, many of its old branches snapped away.

Weatherbeaten peach
grooving to the wind’s rhythms:
graceful elder tree.