Blooming

Close up photo of a tightly packed pink rose.

The welcome parade:
waking from hibernation,
roses bloom for spring.

Return

Close up photo of a pink rose on the bush.

Roses have returned:
winter showers didn’t drown them
nor my pruning kill.

Dying

Close up photo of a red rose with most of its petals dropped.

A broken red rose
bleeds all over my front yard—
spring breeze pays homage.

Blush

photo of the pinkish horizon of the setting sun, with two pink rose buds in the foreground

Late springtime sunset—
mimicking the horizon,
my pink roses blush.

Blossom

close up photo of a pink rose with the deep blue-pink of the sunset in the background

Swallowing the sun,
the night creeps over our homes,
a new rose blushes.